Issue 2299 | Magazine cover date: 14 July 2001

14 July 2001

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BAD news for women on the pill who like to exercise: they may be prone to osteoporosis. If women take the pill, it's known they risk losing bone mass. But because exercise was thought to rectify this, women on the pill have been encouraged to stay active. But when Connie Weaver and her colleagues at …

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Alien virus invades PCs

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Know your enemy... by his smell

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Satellites keep their cool

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Computer on a roll?

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Trial or error

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A little of what they fancy...

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Long-distance doodles

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Submarine juice bar

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Time stands still

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Break the spell

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Great white housewives

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The heat is on

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Don't go breaking my $75,000 plastic heart

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All-weather windmills

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Ripped genes

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Deafening

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Tomboys are bred in the womb

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Leaf me alone

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Two's a crowd

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Destined to divorce

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Life

Man's even better friend?

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Ancient Ethiopian shakes the evolutionary tree

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Masters of disguise

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Save our tongues

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Lifeline for Congo

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No more highs

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What's the matter?

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Raising the Kursk

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Westminster diary

AS ROAD MAPS go, the Queen's Speech at the start of a new Parliament is a pretty accurate one for the journey ahead. It lays bare the government's prime preoccupations for the next few months, and the lack of any indication of action on tobacco advertising in last month's speech is certain to stir up …

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Their stories are the stuff of legend...Evariste Galois, the 20-year-old mathematical genius who, in a letter the night before he was killed in a duel in 1832, frenziedly scribbled down the discoveries he had made in group theory, breaking off repeatedly to scrawl "I have not time" in the margin. And Karl Schawarzschild, the astronomer …

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The Shattered Self by Pierre Baldi, MIT Press, £16.95/$24.95, ISBN 0262025027 I AM unique. I don't mean to be boastful, but I am. And so are you. Or possibly not. What if you are an identical twin? Are you unique, or are you one of two copies? This issue, argues Pierre Baldi in The Shattered …

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A LAWYER in Melbourne has managed to patent the wheel under Australia's new Innovation Patent system. The system was introduced in May to make patenting cheaper and easier. Patent attorney John Keogh filed his patent for a "circular transportation facilitation device" to demonstrate that the system is flawed, because applications under it do not need …

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14 July 2001

On the cover

Signed, sealed and delivered

Muddling through on the final frontier

It's a blast

Taking sides

Taming the multiverse

Table of contents

News

Pill penalty

Drowning by numbers

Moonbust

Technology

Safe signals

Technology

Ease those joints

Technology

Deceiving the enemy

Meet the great, great grandmother of the mountain bike

Wrinkle food

Fish and make up

Alien virus invades PCs

Know your enemy... by his smell

Satellites keep their cool

Computer on a roll?

You are here

Trial or error

A little of what they fancy...

Long-distance doodles

Submarine juice bar

Time stands still

Break the spell

Nuclear check-up

Great white housewives

The heat is on

Don't go breaking my $75,000 plastic heart

All-weather windmills

Ripped genes

Deafening

Tomboys are bred in the womb

Leaf me alone

Two's a crowd

Destined to divorce

Life

Man's even better friend?

Ancient Ethiopian shakes the evolutionary tree

Masters of disguise

Save our tongues

Lifeline for Congo

No more highs

What's the matter?

Raising the Kursk

Read all about it

Here comes the Sun

Opinion

Westminster diary

The kids are alright

Prepare for the worst

Doing it for themselves

The price is wrong

Features

Signed, sealed and delivered

Muddling through on the final frontier

It's a blast

Taking sides

Taming the multiverse

More

The bearable likeness of being

Bye, bye, dear deer

The return of the Mummy

You can't lose

From Anarchy to Power by Wendy Grossman

Follow that atom

Bestsellers

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Feedback

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