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12 February 2000

Issue 2225

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Voyage to the bottom of the sea

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Atomic abacus

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Grow your own

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Aroma therapy

Aroma therapy

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Table of contents

News

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Hairy old bats

UNLIKE other mammals, bats regenerate the hair cells in their inner ears to replace those that they lose in old age, according to a team of biologists in Denmark. The number of hair cells in the inner ear of many mammals, including humans and mice, declines with age, leading to hearing loss. But when Mette …

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Plant of ages

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Fatal weakness

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Melancholy money

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Murky depths

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Sharing the knowledge

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Treasure island

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The sudden stop that leads to lift-off

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Nickel lite

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Thunderous giant

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Inquiry discovers `hidden' gene trial casualties

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Deep clean

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Tumour sensor

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Period protection

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Crackle and pop

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Robo carer

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Cool customer

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Starfish saviour

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Danger in every drop

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Technology

Surfing for love

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Filter coffee

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Why drunken binges end in the gutter

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Drive on

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Drop the pilot

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All that jazz

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Extreme survival

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Technology

Braking point

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Technology

Phone posts

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Technology

Cereal thriller

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Look lively

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Date with a killer

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Trust me

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If you can't quit, try a safer cigarette

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Cuts no ice

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Latin America

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Return to the primordial particle soup

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Animals lose out

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Teen troubles

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War on all fronts

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster Diary

WHILE we closely monitor the quality of our water and air—and quite rightly so—we seem to pay scant attention to monitoring our soils. In this context, what has happened to Soil Protection Strategy? This long-promised consultation document is to outline the government's policy on soil protection and is being jointly drafted by the Department of …

Opinion

Larger than life

Opinion

Rest assured

Opinion

Ditherer's dilemma

Opinion

Turning back the tide

Opinion

Who controls gene therapy?

Opinion

Off target

Opinion

Features

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Voyage to the bottom of the sea

"FORGET everything you know about normal submersibles," says Graham Hawkes, as he sits in his small workshop overlooking San Francisco Bay. On the walls hang pictures of the many submersibles he has already built and even a stamp from the Turks and Caicos Islands honouring one of them as a milestone in marine technology. Behind …

Features

Atomic abacus

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Grow your own

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Aroma therapy

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More

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Mystic blueberries

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life," said Henry Thoreau in Walden. He stayed hungry. Wild Fruits, the last, unfinished work of Concord's eco-prophet, takes us through those moments in the New England seasons when each native fruit—huckleberry, choke cherry, wild grape—ripens. An acute, funny and intimate book, this …

Books & Arts

The Smoking Book by Lesley Stern

Books & Arts

The Eternal Darkness by Robert Ballard with Will Hively

Books & Arts

Well, I mean, er…

Books & Arts

The worst of times

Books & Arts

Brainiac dreams

Books & Arts

Watching brief

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

IN 1939 , the BBC bought a stately home on a wooded hill near Evesham in Worcestershire and spread the rumour that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were going to live there. In reality, the government was making Wood Norton Hall the largest secret broadcasting centre in Europe. During the war it put out …

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