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21 April 2001

Issue 2287

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Chasing shadows

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The perfume hunters

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There she flips

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In search of God

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Space-age sundials help satellites look on the bright side

A COUPLE of sundials is all it takes to ensure that the solar panels of small satellites are always pointing at the Sun. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have shown that sensors working on the sundial principle will keep a satellite's solar panels working at maximum efficiency. Satellites that weigh less …

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Power trip

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High life

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Slings of fortune

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Cool colours, man

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Dye hard

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Cut the crusts

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Blame dad

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The bad old days

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Don't eat me, I'm covered in vomit

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Sea for yourself

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Hang on to that fat

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Technology

Call for cash

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Technology

Jolly rogered

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Technology

Slushy stuff

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Guiding light

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Essential oils are not so essential after all

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Nerve-racking stuff

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Space oddities

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City limits

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Tough little critters

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Walk like a scorpion

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Toast your health with white wine

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Fruits of success

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Love it or loathe it

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Excommunicated

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Seeing the dark side

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Free spirits

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Reap what you sow

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Buying time

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Blocking Alzheimer's

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Coral island gets slapdash clean-up after bungled nuclear test

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Asking for trouble

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Out of the frying pan…

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Sons of Chernobyl

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Costa del Space

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Solar sail damaged

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Party animals

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They seek it here, they seek it there…

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Just add water

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Is this the answer for hopeless dopeheads?

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Westminster Diary

LAST month a Land Rover travelling on the M62 motorway veered off the road and crashed onto a railway track close to the village of Great Heck, near Selby, in Yorkshire. It derailed the 4.45 am express from Newcastle, which was then hit by a speeding freight train. Ten people were killed. Initial suspicions focused …

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Great leap forward

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Bio-apocalypse now

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Don't get complacent

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Giving birth in the 16th century was always risky. And if the infant needed serious help to escape the womb, both mother and baby's chances of survival were slim. An instrument to haul the baby out, alive and intact, would have been a godsend. Towards the end of the century a certain Peter Chamberlen cobbled …

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Chasing shadows

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The perfume hunters

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There she flips

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In search of God

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Who's reading what - Tim Lang

Tim Lang is a regular on British television. As professor of food policy at Thames Valley University he is one of the first contacts journalists turn to when a food crisis strikes. But Lang never watches TV at home—"I couldn't stand the way it trivialised life," he says—and that leaves him time to read outside …

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Who's reading what - Gretchen Daily

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Death on the ocean wave

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Art of Knowledge

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What was I doing?

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Falling star

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Look up, Look it up

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Rock on

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Feedback

ESPERANTO strikes back. Following the claim in New Scientist's Letters pages that there are now more fluent Klingon speakers than Esperanto speakers (17 March, p 62) , Fox Lorber Films tells us it is releasing Incubus—the only feature film ever made in Esperanto—on video and DVD at the beginning of May. Directed by Leslie Stevens, …

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