Issue 2255 | Magazine cover date: 9 September 2000

9 September 2000

Issue 2255

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Features

They're playing my tune

News

Don't try too hard (1)

Opinion

Here's mud in your eye!

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They're playing my tune

Features

Copy your neighbour

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Hairy space probes

Features

Titanic

Features

News

Don't try too hard (1)

THEY seem the picture of health. But there are alarming signs that athletes are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with the unrelenting drive toward excellence. "Most athletes say that they are happy to die early if it means that they could win Olympic gold," says exercise physiologist Richard Winsley of Exeter University. "That's the …

News

Don't try too hard (2)

News

Don't try too hard (3)

News

It won't be crumbling away just yet

News

Living longer

News

Ticklish point

News

Cholesterol block

News

Happy herb

News

Shrinking shrub

News

Humans

Making every muscle count

News

The ultimate challenge

News

What does it take to succeed?

News

Humans

How to keep on running

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Humans

Tiny tumblers are stealing the show

News

Humans

How special muscle fibres makes the fastest sprinters so speedy

News

Download your common sense

News

Saved by polio

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Bright young things

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Private launchers to study space rescue

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I've lost my appetite…

News

Technology

Scratch 'n' peel

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Technology

Glowing with poor health

News

Technology

Rubbery roofs

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Last resort

News

Sleepy heads

News

It pays to do market research

News

Hope for the badlands

News

Bright 'n' brainy

News

Buoyed by alcohol

News

Designer trees

News

Alien invader

News

The two that are becoming one

News

Ouch! That hurts

News

Technology

Olympian protests

News

Nuclear muddle

News

It does your head in

News

Massive discovery?

News

Battlefield

News

Brazil claims foot-and-mouth sabotage

News

"No" to gene tests

News

Bearly female

News

Volunteers try vaccine

News

Eat your space greens

News

Opinion

Here's mud in your eye!

I PEER out into the dawn mist. It is snowing softly and the sea is flat calm. Then they appear, three great grey shapes cruising powerfully alongside our ship. They take steady short breaths, briefly engulfing us in a fishy cloud of steam, then turn and dive under the hull. "A-frame in!" shouts Josh into …

Opinion

Father Earth

Opinion

Westminster diary

Opinion

The lark descending

Opinion

Features

They're playing my tune

JOE POMPEI bends down and picks up his favourite toy. It's a thin black disc about half a metre across which he holds in two hands like a barber's mirror. He flicks a switch on an ordinary-looking amplifier, and you become vaguely aware of a tinny beat, as though there's someone on the other side …

Features

Copy your neighbour

Features

Hairy space probes

Features

Titanic

Features

Take the E train

E = mc 2 by David Bodanis, Macmillan, £14.99, ISBN 0333780337 WHAT a brilliant idea for a book: a short, snappy account of E = mc 2 , the most famous equation in science. The wonder is that no one thought of it sooner. Almost a century has passed since Einstein unveiled this most astonishing …

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Cover story

Books & Arts

We do need sex, really

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from London

Books & Arts

To err is stupid

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

OLD AGE isn't what it used to be. Rachel MacKinley lives close to her 83-year-old mother Dorothy in the small Suffolk coastal town of Aldeburgh, and pops in to see her each day to make sure she is getting on all right. Summoned away on a business trip recently, she decided it would be best …

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9 September 2000

On the cover

They're playing my tune

Copy your neighbour

Hairy space probes

Titanic

Table of contents

News

Don't try too hard (1)

Don't try too hard (2)

Don't try too hard (3)

It won't be crumbling away just yet

Living longer

Ticklish point

Cholesterol block

Happy herb

Shrinking shrub

Humans

Making every muscle count

The ultimate challenge

What does it take to succeed?

Humans

How to keep on running

Humans

Tiny tumblers are stealing the show

Humans

How special muscle fibres makes the fastest sprinters so speedy

Download your common sense

Saved by polio

Bright young things

Private launchers to study space rescue

I've lost my appetite…

Technology

Scratch 'n' peel

Technology

Glowing with poor health

Technology

Rubbery roofs

Last resort

Sleepy heads

It pays to do market research

Hope for the badlands

Bright 'n' brainy

Buoyed by alcohol

Designer trees

Alien invader

The two that are becoming one

Ouch! That hurts

Technology

Olympian protests

Nuclear muddle

It does your head in

Massive discovery?

Battlefield

Brazil claims foot-and-mouth sabotage

"No" to gene tests

Bearly female

Volunteers try vaccine

Eat your space greens

Opinion

Here's mud in your eye!

Father Earth

Westminster diary

The lark descending

Features

They're playing my tune

Copy your neighbour

Hairy space probes

Titanic

More

Take the E train

Cover story

We do need sex, really

Bestsellers from London

To err is stupid

Regulars

Feedback

The Last Word

Regulars