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30 September 2000

Issue 2258

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Pigeonholed

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Life, the sequel

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Someone to watch over you

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Whatever you want

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Table of contents

News

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Catch chlamydia

THE sexually transmitted infection chlamydia may be twice as common as previously thought. According to past studies, around 4 per cent of women in Britain are infected by the bacterium, of whom two-thirds show no symptoms. Now a pilot screening programme in Portsmouth involving 17,500 women aged between 16 and 24 has found that over …

News

Health

Tampon test

News

Radical damage

News

Eau de Panda drives males wild

News

Earthquake alert

News

It's a blast

News

Grounded

News

Paperless papers

News

Breathe easier if you're one of a pair

News

Sexual healing

News

Snacks on the hoof

News

You're late!

News

Health

Magic sponge

News

Health

Once a day keeps HIV at bay

News

The mouse that roared

News

Digital dentures

News

Hearty brew

News

A plague unleashed

News

Technology

Midnight lightshow

News

Raising the alarm

News

Health

If the smoke don't get you the tobacco will

News

Health

A killer on the run

News

Melting Ötzi's heart

News

Shells off the shelves

News

Deadly touch

News

Superbugs passed on in tainted food

News

Blood feud

News

Technology

No-leak drawings

News

Technology

Ready steady go

News

Technology

This way out

News

Fatal comeback

News

Enemies for life

News

Hazards of a healthy choice

News

Cracking up

News

Sun, surf . . . and a dab of DNA

News

Scorched earth

News

Cookie monsters

News

Cool thinking

News

Eat me

News

Vultures face oblivion

News

`Unethical' IVF causes storm in Japan

News

Opinion

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Humans

Washington diary

IT HAS BEEN almost four months since scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (aka the birthplace of the atomic bomb) "lost" and then "found" two computer discs containing top-secret nuclear information. The discs, which explained how to disarm bombs, were found missing just before a forest fire forced the lab's evacuation. …

Opinion

Let them eat kilos!

Opinion

Free spirits

Opinion

And with these hands

Opinion

They need your DNA

Opinion

Bang goes the landmine treaty

Opinion

Features

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Pigeonholed

DEBORAH BEST tells a story about a game her two nieces, aged three and five, were playing. "One of them was pretending to be sick, the other was taking care of her—as a nurse. I asked her why she wasn't being a doctor," says Best. "And she told me, `Girls can't be doctors!'" What shocked …

Features

Life, the sequel

Features

Someone to watch over you

Features

Whatever you want

Features

More

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Talking `bout a revolution

The birthplace of the Web? A physics laboratory near Geneva. At some stage there'll be a plaque at CERN in honour of the Web's fathers, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau. But for now there is an excellent book written by James Gillies with Cailliau about the nativity of an essential part of modern life, out …

Books & Arts

Screen shots

Books & Arts

The stargazer

Books & Arts

Beastly work

Books & Arts

Strategic sex

Books & Arts

Six legs good

Books & Arts

Toxic America

Books & Arts

Jaws of death

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

YUCK! What's that crawling out of your computer keyboard? A recent study by AOL in Britain reveals that up to two grams of gunk accumulates in the average computer keyboard each month. The bulk of it is crumbs and bits of food that fall between the keys when users eat meals and snacks at their …

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