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5 February 2000

Issue 2224

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It's a funny old world

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The field workers

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Monkey business

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Space

Backwards to the future

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News

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By the seaside

THE first evidence that early Americans lived along the now-submerged coast of British Columbia has been found. The modern shoreline is forbiddingly rugged. But at the end of the ice age the sea level was lower. The coastal zone was then a flood plain. It had "lots of food sources for caribou, bear and the …

News

Swim for your life

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Under par

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Late developers

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Locked out

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Lean times

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Twisted tale

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Winds of change

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Breathless

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Another blow

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Early flight needed a jump start

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Healthy serenades

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The wrong trap

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Eau d'asteroid

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Personal tracks

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Mobile mail

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Down but not out

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Technology

Fun with brains

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In a spin

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Recorded delivery

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Instant replay to rule on pitch battles

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Killer from the sea

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Technology

Advertising space

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Technology

Reading downhill

News

Technology

Perpetual waste

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Keeping an eye on the ocean

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Switch on

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How old am I?

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Calling Mars

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Supremacists hijack Martin Luther King

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Spontaneous combustion

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Call of the wild

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Closing in on a male cancer gene

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Let battle commence

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Wolves on the brink

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A clone's clone

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Weapon warning

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What's in a name?

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Soft landing

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Have smart ID tag, will travel

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Lost treasures

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Life less ordinary

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Double trouble

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster Diary

I AM HORRIFIED by the US Senate's refusal to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (New Scientist, 6 November 1999, p 18) . I asked defence ministers how the British government had reacted to this bad news. Armed forces minister John Spellar replied that Britain has expressed its disappointment both privately and publicly. Prime …

Opinion

Maintaining the fabric of society

Opinion

By royal appointment

Opinion

Deep impact

Opinion

Making a meal of it

Opinion

Two cheers for Montreal

Opinion

Don't forget polio . . .

Opinion

Features

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It's a funny old world

MATHEMATICIANS are used to playing around in many dimensions. They pretend that the world is flat and think about how things behave in 2D. They imagine four-dimensional spheres and 20-dimensional pyramids. And they can work out answers to the most esoteric topological problems: if you tie a knot in four dimensions, will it immediately unravel? …

Features

The field workers

Features

Monkey business

Features

Space

Backwards to the future

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More

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Because it's there

George Everest spent much of the first half of the 19th century surveying India. Dogged triangulation by the benighted colonel the Indians called "Kumpass Wala" virtually covered the entire subcontinent. But the most intriguing revelation in Everest, J. R. Smith's austere biography of an austere life, is that almost the only geographical feature he never …

Books & Arts

Worms' turn

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The lie of the land

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from Melbourne

Books & Arts

Daddy Quark

Books & Arts

Centurians

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WHILE out walking in the north of England, reader John Pealfield stopped off to buy himself a tasty chicken and ham sandwich with mustard mayonnaise, produced by Coach Cuisine of Carlisle. Here's what it had in it: "White bread roll: flour, water, yeast, vegetable fat, salt, emulsifiers (mono- and di-glycerides of fatty acids, mono- and …

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