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30 June 2001

Issue 2297

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Get tough!

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Stop the clock

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The quake machine

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Monsters of the deep

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News

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Fast-track TB test

A quick blood test that can detect tuberculosis infection before symptoms appear has been developed. Conventional tests cannot easily distinguish between people with TB and those who have had the BCG vaccine. But Ajit Lalvani at the University of Oxford says his test looks for a specific immune cell reaction to a protein in the …

News

I hear you, bro'

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Sticky sex

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Ant alert

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Strange allure

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Family comes first

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Seek and destroy

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Paint the town red

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All that jazz

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Caviar cutback

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Bush blocked

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Stolen treasure

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Start of darkness

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Hey, good lookin'

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Dream a little dream of me

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Technology

Off the record

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Technology

Dream pipes

News

Technology

Mobile movies

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Giotto's giant jigsaw

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Repeat performance helps to stop a stutter

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Find that whale!

News

Just my type

News

Finding the bombers

News

Fortified food staves off spina bifida

News

Starve a tumour

News

Brown gold

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Are pollock a red herring in Alaska's fishing debate?

News

Carbon sunk

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Raising the dead

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When the wind blows

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Made to measure

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Warning light

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Do brilliant pyrotechnics leave you breathless?

News

Milking the music

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Eyes of a child

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Life

We weren't the only ones to get a big head

News

Call off the guards

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Sunny with clouds

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Plague and pestilence

News

Bush's boffin

News

Retraining your immune system could cure diabetes

News

Darkness at noon

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Mercury's crime

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Brain gain

News

Bush plans to bar firms from using gene tests

News

Poison on your plate

News

Opinion

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Mind

Hello, who are you?

LOOKING for the cleverest, nonhuman ape in the world was, in fact, hard work. I'd only recently swapped investigating the paranormal for consciousness studies, so I knew little about ape minds. But it was my credentials as a serious sceptic that made the TV company choose me to present their programme. Then, suddenly, there I …

Opinion

Washington diary

Opinion

Mind

Something like us

Opinion

Here we go again

Opinion

Confusion in the no-clone zone

Opinion

Features

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Get tough!

TITANIUM is fantastic stuff—it's lighter than steel yet strong and tough enough to survive the extremes of space or the corrosive salts and pressures of the deep ocean with hardly a blemish. In fact, just about the only drawback with the material is its price tag. Titanium is currently six times as expensive as stainless …

Features

Stop the clock

Features

The quake machine

Features

Monsters of the deep

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Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease by Tony McMichael

Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease by Tony McMichael, Cambridge University Press, £14.95, ISBN 0521004942 EVERYONE knows about the three blind men who investigated an elephant. Each came back sure the entire beast must be like the bit he had felt: the tail, the trunk, the leg. No one had the whole picture. Humanity is now …

Books & Arts

No meat for me

Books & Arts

Birds of paint

Books & Arts

Mass burial for dinos

Books & Arts

What fools these mortals be

Books & Arts

Bestsellers

Books & Arts

You can dig it

Books & Arts

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Feedback

CHILDREN , it goes without saying, should be initiated as early as possible into the world of computers and the Internet. So let's welcome the pilot project running at the Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California. Newborn babies at the hospital are routinely sent home with a birth certificate, a box of toys and nappies. …

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