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Beach nuts

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Mean machines

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Bats about boats

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Shoal owner

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Oops, I did it again

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Sundae lunch

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California screaming

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Technology

Video toothbrush

When food gets trapped in your teeth and gums it rots and causes bad breath and decay. But now you can search for it with your Panasonic video toothbrush (EP 1101436). The electric toothbrush has a camera on a stalk next to the vibrating bristles. Connected to a monitor, it lets you hunt down food …

News

Technology

Only reconnect

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Cool it

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No net gain without pain

News

Shocking legacy

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Voiceover

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Playground peril

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Sweet killer

News

Sick of school

News

it's spreading

News

Sun trap

News

He ain't heavy

News

Gimme, it's mine

News

Full throttle

News

Blown away

News

Sleeves up!

News

instant blood

News

Technology

Silent nights

News

Stop sign

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Look, no hole

News

Hemp power

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Bit of a boost

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Hidden costs

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What lies beneath

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lean mean money machines

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Fast breeders

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Life

Spoiling for a fight

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We are not sailing

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Acid test

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The joy of Lara

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Desperate dating

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High hopes

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Blinked and missed it

News

Spot on

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Mum's gums

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Kyoto lives

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Pig out

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Frontline drugs

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Space wait

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halting Alzheimer's

News

Prion purge

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Bursting Point

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Opinion

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Washington diary

AT LAST, the wait is over. The US has a Science Advisor, John H. Marburger III. Not since Floyd Kvamme was named as chairman of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has there been such excitement in Washington science policy circles. Well, maybe excitement is the wrong word. Perhaps relief would be …

Opinion

Out and about

Opinion

Birth of a dilemma

Opinion

The price of idealism

Opinion

Features

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Raising a stink

HERE'S a piece of trivia with which to impress your drinking pals. The average adult in the Western world farts roughly 10 times a day, releasing enough gas to inflate a party balloon. Despite numerous anecdotal claims to the contrary, there is no significant difference in the frequency of emissions between the sexes, although women …

Features

ET-mail

Features

Beach nuts

Features

Mean machines

Features

Bats about boats

Features

Shoal owner

Features

Oops, I did it again

Features

Technology

Sundae lunch

Features

California screaming

Features

Sound of science

Features

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Swim for your life

Interrupted Journey by Kathryn Lasky, photographs by Christopher Knight, Walker Books, £9.99, ISBN 0763606359 IT'S cold, snow is falling, but 10-year-old Max Nolan knows exactly what to do when he finds a turtle close to death on a wintry Cape Cod beach. He moves it above the high water mark, covers it with seaweed, marks …

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Old man river

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Trowels and towels

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Letters out of Africa

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Trail tales

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Off to see the world

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Bon appetit

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Sea spirit

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Wild things

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Feedback

DAVID SCHMIDT has often been bothered by the annoying habit shower curtains have of billowing inwards and sticking to him during a shower. The prevailing explanation is that this is caused by hot air in the cubicle rising. But when Schmidt saw it happening before the shower had warmed up, he decided to apply his …

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