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21 July 2001

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Forging a legend

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Brown burgers can leave bugs in the pink

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Westminster Diary

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Forging a legend

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Monsters in our midst

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The making of a mind

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Snap, Crackle and Pop

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Brown burgers can leave bugs in the pink

DON'T believe people who tell you beefburgers are safe to eat once they've gone brown. To cook beef safely, you should heat it to 70 °C—hot enough to kill potentially lethal Escherichia coli O157. But Morse Solomon and his colleagues at the US Department of Agriculture near Washington DC, have shown that beef can brown …

News

Hey big splasher

News

Perfect timing

News

Smoke signals

News

Fright on the right

News

Chill out

News

Sensitive sensors get the blue light

News

Technology

Terraforming Venus

News

Technology

Don't go burning my heart

News

Technology

Stiff little arteries?

News

At home on the piste

News

Poisonous attraction

News

Volt rigging

News

Don't get plastered

News

Podium panic

News

Fruit fantastic

News

Banish the blues

News

Cheesy delights of a French classic

News

You drive me crazy

News

Stuck with it

News

Don't lose your nerve

News

Hell on wheels

News

Red giant's eau de vie

News

Killer caterpillars?

News

I'll call you back

News

Up a bit

News

Health

Protection racket

News

Death of the fittest

News

Madness of Abe

News

Let's play astronauts

News

US puts its foot down on tinkering with IVF babies

News

Kaboom!

News

Nuclear bosses in hot water over dropped fuel rods

News

Cloned in the USA

News

The awful truth

News

Now you see it, now you don't

News

Banana bonanza

News

Sun bird

News

They won't listen

News

Please wipe your feet

News

End of the line

News

Lucky escape

News

Violent future

News

Opinion

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Westminster Diary

IT was a hot summer day, but I was chilled to the bone to read this subheading: "No lab on Earth can cope with what might be lurking in Martian soil" (New Scientist, 9 June, p 10) . If NASA scientists bring back samples of soil from Mars that are contaminated with alien life, we …

Opinion

Sweet dreams

Opinion

The key to freedom

Opinion

Personally speaking

Opinion

Banana drama

Opinion

Just get on with it

Opinion

Features

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Forging a legend

GREG OLSON wants to forge the strongest sword in history, a sword that will be known as Dragonslayer. He knows a good marketing ploy when he sees one. The idea is to auction off the sword to collectors, to gain publicity for a new type of steel called Ferrium C69. It's the hardest steel ever …

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Monsters in our midst

Features

The making of a mind

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Snap, Crackle and Pop

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Gateway to Gotham

Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, engineering, and architecture in New York City by Kurt Schlichting, Johns Hopkins University Press, $17.95, ISBN 0801865107 AS EVERY urban planner knows, transportation networks mould patterns of land use and urban development, while emerging patterns of land use generate demand for transportation. Nowhere has this symbiotic growth cycle been more evident …

Books & Arts

Staggering bills

Books & Arts

Out of the Shadows

Books & Arts

Beyond Alchemy

Books & Arts

Take a Trip

Books & Arts

All in the mind?

Books & Arts

Who's Reading What

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE GREAT thing about the Internet is its anonymity. You can post whatever you want on it, and if you're clever enough, no one can track you down. So for a Russian hit man from the town of Samara, the Net was the logical place to advertise his services. "Will help retire from life, possibly …

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