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25 November 2000

Issue 2266

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Saints and the Cyclops

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Meet me at the goo

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Kicking the habit

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Taking the Plunge

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News

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Sunken secret of St Kilda's past

THE remote archipelago of St Kilda off the west coast of Scotland was once a single mountainous island. The first underwater survey of the area, conducted by the government agencies Scottish Natural Heritage and the Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory, has revealed that the seabed between the four islands in the group is just 60 …

News

Environment

Lemur bonanza

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Giants of the skies

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Baby roulette

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Sniffing the seas

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Trouble brewing

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Headbangers are back

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Personal radar

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Picasso would be proud

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Howzat!

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Drugs on tap from morning dew

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Foul play

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How volcanoes are running rings around the world

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What's up doc?

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Bug cement

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A view to a kill

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Denmark outlaws heavy metal

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Early warning for Parkinson's

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Unnatural causes

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Technology

A new way of listening

News

End diabetes with a single shot

News

Land of the rising suns

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It's OK to be left on the shelf

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Eyes like a hawk

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Iridium flies on

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Name-calling

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Sliced-up pi

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Bug-propelled subs

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Silicon learns to lighten up

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Technology

Dried up and useless

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Technology

In your own image

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Technology

Rotten credit

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Let's do lunch

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Drowning in ecstasy

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Australia looks up in anger

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Monster memory

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Enjoy your flight

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Non to Yahoo

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Banking on seeds

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Survival of the meanest

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The killer's accomplice

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Washed off the map

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Opinion

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Close call

IT WASN'T just the weather that was gloomy in The Hague this week. As governments gathered to thrash out ways to reduce the atmosphere's burden of carbon dioxide, there was palpable pessimism over the expected clash between Europe and the US. At issue was the balance between countries cutting their CO 2 emissions and expanding …

Opinion

Washington diary

Opinion

You can't argue with that

Opinion

Last chance lagoon

Opinion

Features

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Saints and the Cyclops

What do you do if you unearth a pile of old bones in the back garden? Call the police if they look recent and human. Call the local museum if they don't. Or if you're a peasant living on the island of Cyprus before the end of the 19th century, do something more imaginative. Claim …

Features

Meet me at the goo

Features

Kicking the habit

Features

Taking the Plunge

Features

More

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Money, money, money

Does wealth make you happy? It's an old question, but always relevant. Before 1945 no one had TV, computers or mobile phones. Are we happier now that we have them? Edited by Ed Diener and Eunkook Suh, Culture and Subjective Well-Being (MIT Press, $45, ISBN 0262041820) has some fascinating answers to this and similarly piercing …

Books & Arts

Clever clogs

Books & Arts

I hear music

Books & Arts

Kurt Gödel and the riddle of the Nile

Books & Arts

Robomuseum

Books & Arts

Steamy stuff

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WHAT do you do when the market for what you normally produce dries up? Diversify. That's certainly what they've done at Russia's top-secret nuclear facility near Sarov. By way of ringing the changes from producing weapons of mass destruction, they have started making church bells. Technicians at the facility say that after years of computer …

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