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7 October 2000

Issue 2259

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Power up

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Gizmos' graveyard

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Would a massive African landslip threaten US?

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Sweet healing

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Snails for dinner

TWO species of fly that prey on marine snails have been discovered in the mangroves of central Queensland. "They're a real curiosity. Insects that attack marine animals are very rare," says Stephen McKillup of Central Queensland University, who made the find. The flies, members of the genus Sarcophaga, deposit live larvae on the snail, which …

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Genesis factor

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In a spin

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Two bottlenoses for the price of one

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Big break

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Smoked ovaries

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Juicy fruit

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Longer lives

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Bird plague

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Lunar law

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Last rites

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Sinister side of sunscreens

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Things aren't looking so bright for dark matter

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Space foam

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Playing safe

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Surgeons follow guiding light

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Hoops from hell

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Terminator 2 it ain't

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Video magic

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Small is beautiful

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Must one twin die?

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Too hot to handle

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Food poisoning bugs thrive in crop sprays

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Deadly draw

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Technology

Seen but not heard

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Technology

Heavenly ironing

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Technology

Stunning mutt

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Technology

Suits you, sir

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In the beginning

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Little gem

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Killer blow

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Pig organ firm goes stateside

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Speedy sex

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Gambling with the Earth

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Dishing the dirt

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Fertility preserved

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Virus returns

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Raking in the greenbacks

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Taco trouble

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Burrowing bombs could nuke dictators

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Running amok

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster Diary

WITH so many shipwrecks littering the seabed around Britain, maritime archaeology is vital for preserving this part of our heritage. I went to talk about this pressing subject with Arts Minister Alan Haworth, accompanied by Eddie O'Hara, MP for Knowsley South and an Oxford classical scholar. It seems, however, that the responsibility for naval wrecks …

Opinion

Two cultures

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The zoo master

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Final warning

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Sweet reason

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Features

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Power up

BY THE early 1900s, Manhattan residents were finding life on the ground a little crowded. Their solution was simple: as land prices soared, so did the buildings. A century later, computer chip manufacturers are facing a similar crisis. They need to pack more and more components onto their chips, so silicon real estate is at …

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Gizmos' graveyard

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Would a massive African landslip threaten US?

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Sweet healing

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Family matters

Forward-facing eyes are a defining feature of all primates, but the one thing that strikes you as you begin to leaf through the 350 colour photographs in Cousins is the diversity of our closest relatives' faces—ranging from the comic to the threatening to the almost human. The book, which complements the BBC TV series of …

Books & Arts

McLuhan's village

Books & Arts

Chasing monsters

Books & Arts

Mad geniuses

Books & Arts

Calling the tune

Books & Arts

Deep impact

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

DO COWS like chewing gum and is it good for them? For the answer to this burning question you can turn to a report by B. W. Wolf and his colleagues at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Their paper, which appeared last year in the Journal of Animal Science (vol 77, p 3392), bears the …

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