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2 September 2000

Issue 2254

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Splat!

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The Mars collection

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Feel the pulse

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The last computer

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Monster in the Med

IF YOU'RE planning a holiday in the Mediterranean, take heed. A giant squid, Architeuthis, has washed up on a beach near the Straits of Gibraltar, Maria Gonzales of the Malaga Oceanographic Centre and her colleagues report in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK (vol 80, p 745). Gonzales thinks that the …

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Dementia in a pill

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Transparent rats

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X-rays in from the cold

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How Arctic plants survived the ice age

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Starve them

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Cancer blocker

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Waterworld

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Going critical

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Gene therapy back on track

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All strung out

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River deep, mountain high

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Sensible stents

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Stop watch

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Smart spellchecker

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Striking back

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Technology

Sand, sea and one big storm

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Even for an albatross, there's no place like home

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Necessary evil?

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New knees could keep footballers kicking

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Cracking correlations

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Leave well alone

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The big squeeze

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Failure of conservation

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An inside job

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Spying on the race to arms

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Double benefit

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Bigger balls, please

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Killer in hiding

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Technology

Cellular cell

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Technology

Sky's the limit

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Speaking in whistles

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It's in the air

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Technology

Winning light

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Say aargh!

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Counting the cost

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Dust buster

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Flying home

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Under starter's orders

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You have twenty seconds to comply

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Opinion

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Therapeutic argument

AUSTRALIAN scientists and their regulators will be watching closely the unfolding debate in the UK over working with stem cells. There is strong local interest in this research which holds out the hope of curing such ailments as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, as well as conditions now requiring organ transplants. The problem is …

Opinion

Elemental, my dear Watson

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

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Ripe for revival

Opinion

If you're happy and you know it . . .

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Let them eat caju

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Features

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Splat!

STANDING in the picturesque English town of Canterbury, you would never believe that so many lives are being sacrificed here in crash tests of unimaginable violence. Hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting victims are accelerated to more than 18 000 kilometres per hour and slammed into walls of granite, steel or glass. Only a traumatised few …

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The Mars collection

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Feel the pulse

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The last computer

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Mind games

Wild Minds: What animals really think by Marc Hauser, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, £18.99, ISBN 0713994711 IN Wild Minds, Marc Hauser's own wild and curious mind leads us on a fascinating and enlightening journey into the worlds of other animals—exploring what they think about and what makes them tick. But he begins on an odd …

Books & Arts

Security out of obscurity

Books & Arts

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Feedback

DO YOU believe that cold fusion works? Think hard, because your answer could have far-reaching consequences. Paul LaViolette, who used to be an examiner for the US Patent and Trademark Office, is a believer. When the PTO sacked him last year, he appealed against his dismissal, claiming he was fired because he believed in cold …

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