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22 April 2000

Issue 2235

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Let there be light

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Unnatural selection

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gasfromthepast

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The look of life

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Three down

Working drafts of the sequences of human chromosomes 5, 16 and 19 have been completed by US Department of Energy labs—the next major milestone since the completion of chromosome 22 (New Scientist, 4 December 1999, p 5) . The three chromosomes represent 11 per cent of our genome and contain ten to fifteen thousand genes. …

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Could do better

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Earth under strain

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Family misfortunes

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Gastronauts savour the black bean chilli

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Too much too young

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Avoiding the jerks

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Easy to fool

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Almost human

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Solid solution

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Sniffing out the secrets of the fossil world

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Faulty foundations

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Experience pays

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Final fling

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Easy living

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Vintage stars

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Reality bites

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Milky Way eats stellar snack

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Dreams of an anteater

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Giant telescope rises again

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Worth protecting

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Tainted rain

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First pick

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Vitamin overdose

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Eye for disaster

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Technology

Running scared

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Hamster dads make wonderful midwives

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Bone of your own

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It's inaction stations as game pirates run amok

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Touch and go

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About turn

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30th-century paper

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Heavy print

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Naturally repellent

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Seismic shift

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Genesis of life

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Listen up

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Technology

Ageing television

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Technology

Sound of silence

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Sludge power

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Wanna jam it?

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Opinion

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Beyond belief

COULD it really be possible? Did Noah's flood create the fossil record that we see today? Or perhaps God designed the fossil record to make it look as though evolution had happened. These are just two of the ideas put forward by creationists for dispensing with Darwinian evolution. The first has been tested and found …

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Where there's fire, there's pollution

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Earth

I'd do it all again

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Earth

You asked for it

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Earth

Fighting Talk

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Earth

According to the book . . .

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Humans

Westminster Diary

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Earth

Take me to your leader

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Let there be light

THERE IS A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE between creationism and science. Most creationists, starting with the premise that the words of the Bible must be taken entirely at face value, go on to conclude, for instance, that the Earth was created in just six days, roughly 10 000 years ago. Fair enough. Though such opinions fly …

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Unnatural selection

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gasfromthepast

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The look of life

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Earth

The word is . . .

Karen Armstrong's intriguing The Battle for God proposes that the success of science in the modern world is, paradoxically, a cause of fundamentalism in religion. Newton's discovery of the clockwork progression of the planets "proved the existence of God, the great Mechanick" because order in the Universe did not arise by chance. As science extended …

Books & Arts

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Not a believer

Books & Arts

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Feedback

IF YOUR image of an American dairy farm is one of happy black and white cows on verdant hillsides, forget it. Michael Pariza of the University of Wisconsin recently found that conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a fat humans do not produce, is found in cows' milk, and not only reduces incidence of many cancers, but …

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