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29 July 2000

Issue 2249

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Earth eleven

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Earth eleven

Features
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Is it time for luxury deep sea cruising?

Features
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Moo Age travellers

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Shore things

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Dune

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Ladies in waiting

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Think of a number

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Yabba dabba dooo!

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Good house-keeping

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Sleep, who needs it?

Features
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Reef encounter

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News

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Second sight

AN ARTIFICIAL polymer may help to restore sight to people with damaged corneas. Patients are normally treated by grafting cornea tissue from a donor, but the rate of rejection is high and surgeons have to remove some of the healthy cornea around the damage for a graft to take. But Monique Bruining and her colleagues …

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Saurian dogfight

News

Wobbling world

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Cheer up

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Quick death

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Straight from the heart

News

Dance drug linked to drain on the brain

News

Allergy test is good news for mice

News

Part of the gang

News

Who needs cells?

News

Cancer screening that's as simple as spitting

News

Health

How HIV spreads into the wilderness

News

Eyes right

News

Let the sun shine in

News

Early warning of epileptic seizures

News

Technology

Downloads in danger

News

Reservoir sheep

News

Health

Smallpox attack

News

Health

Deadly combination

News

Health

Going to the dogs

News

Technology

Memory trick

News

And you thought light moves fast

News

Secrets of a longer life

News

Disappearing Sun takes its toll

News

Happy landings

News

Gene-free tomatoes

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Jupiter's new moon

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Safer swimming

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Spy on board

News

The supernova fuse is lit

News

Save the Vermont 376!

News

Is there anybody out there?

News

Smelly signals

News

Technology

Bouncy motor

News

Why the Internet is a house of cards

News

A receding shoreline

News

Celestial gold

News

Particle hunters complete the set at last

News

Sent naked into battle

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington Diary

The International Olympic Committee is reportedly contemplating some changes to the way it will run the Marathon in this year's games. Two scenarios are under consideration. In one, any runner who is ahead after 20 miles (32.2 kilometres) may simply stop and claim to be the winner. In another, runners will complete their races at …

Opinion

Heading towards the true blue light

Opinion

John Baez is reading...

Opinion

Stars in their eyes

Opinion

Max Tegmark is reading . . .

Opinion

H-bombs and X-files

Opinion

Rules for modern living

Opinion

Ingemar Lundström is reading . . .

Opinion

Athene Donald is reading . . .

Opinion

Speed reading

Opinion

Around the world with Opinion

Opinion

Life's a beach

Opinion

Shifting sands

Opinion

Gabriella Saibene is reading...

Opinion

Temples of intelligence

Opinion

Wave the beach goodbye

Opinion

Features

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Earth eleven

THE trouble with being a space tourist is that there really isn't very much to do. The astronauts hog all the good stuff. They've got important experiments to set up, mission control to chat with and a nice expensive vehicle to blast about in. But what about us lesser mortals? All we would be trusted …

Features

Is it time for luxury deep sea cruising?

Features

Moo Age travellers

Features

Shore things

Features

Dune

Features

Ladies in waiting

Features

Think of a number

Features

Yabba dabba dooo!

Features

Good house-keeping

Features

Sleep, who needs it?

Features

Reef encounter

Features

Regulars

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Feedback

SOFT, UNSWEET, BLAND , with a touch of acid and a hint of salt. It doesn't have a good finish, just fades away. Sounds like a dull wine, doesn't it? But this is a billion-dollar taste: DNA itself. After all the reports on the sequencing of the human genome detailing clashes over priority, and claims …

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