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24 March 2001

Issue 2283

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The giants' graveyard

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Seeing the seeds of cancer

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The monster in the lake

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That's entertainment

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Life

Culture Shock

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News

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Why cycling can be a shattering experience

SOME lightweight bicycle wheels have a design flaw that makes them shatter dramatically. "I had a guy come in who'd had his wheel on the kitchen table and it exploded in his face while he was inspecting it," says John Morgan of Bristol University, who has been studying aluminium wheel rims. "He got aluminium in …

News

Microscopic midwives

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When breast is bad

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Volatile Venus

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Don't eat elk

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Egged on

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The pressure's off

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Snow in summer

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Pool watch

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Technology

Gates of El Dorado

News

Technology

Kilroy woz nabbed 'ere

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Technology

Running on empty

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One-touch texting

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Asleep at the wheel

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An uncertain future

News

Doorstep remedies

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Traces of war

News

Baby, I saw you first

News

Sharp shooter

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Steam engines in space

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Molecules do a Mexican wave

News

Clever clothes

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It's the pits

News

Last breath

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Maize mix-up

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Sand shapes up

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You need a gentle touch to feel an atom

News

Who's the daddy?

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Consigned to the flames

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Why chunky chickens are better for your health

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Banished to a watery grave

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As easy as 1, 2, 3

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As sick as a parrot

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Spying on alien worlds

News

Hot property

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Broken promises

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Health

Catastrophe or cure?

News

What are the alternatives?

News

This means war

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Green house-warming

News

Teeny-weeny

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Sting in the tail

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Carry on regardless

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Opinion

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Westminster Diary

FOURTEEN years after the world's worst nuclear reactor accident, Chernobyl's last working reactor finally closed down last year. But its intended replacements are already causing international consternation. In December 2000, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) approved a £147 million loan for two new reactors. However, the Austrians complained that Ukraine is subject …

Opinion

Caught in a trap

Opinion

Home of the brave?

Opinion

Trial and error

Opinion

Features

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The giants' graveyard

FEDERICO CESI was passionate about nature. Animal, vegetable or mineral—he wanted to make sense of the whole of creation. In the early 17th century, this wasn't the ideal career for a member of one of Rome's aristocratic families with close links to the Church. Cesi's father, the Duke of Acquasparta, was bitterly opposed to it. …

Features

Seeing the seeds of cancer

Features

The monster in the lake

Features

That's entertainment

Features

Life

Culture Shock

Features

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The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan

The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan, Basic Books, $26, ISBN 0465022715 "THE little ice age reminds us that climate change is inevitable, unpredictable and sometimes vicious," says Brian Fagan in a climate chronicle of the past thousand years. Between 900 and 1300 temperatures over northern Europe were positively balmy. Erik the Red's colonists fattened …

Books & Arts

Trick of the Light

Books & Arts

Taste of Heaven

Books & Arts

Narrow Visions

Books & Arts

Taken at face value

Books & Arts

Ruth Deech

Books & Arts

Fight the Good Fight

Books & Arts

E.O. Wilson

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HOW would you like to have your name on Mars? In 2003 NASA will launch two Mars Rovers to find out more about the planet's climate and water history. And NASA is offering the opportunity to have your name included on a CD to be carried by one of the Rovers. The expedition Web page …

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