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15 September 2001

Issue 2308

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The Countess and the cure

Features
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You must remember this

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What could go wrong?

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Just say NO

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The worm that earned

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Table of contents

News

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Leaders of the pack

RACING cyclists often ride in packs so they can reduce wind drag. But some say that this gives poorer cyclists an unfair advantage, as they can tag along behind the leaders. Now Graeme Ackland and David Butler of the University of Edinburgh have put together a mathematical model that describes how this clumping happens. Cyclists …

News

Sharp kitty

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Big attraction

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Technology

Silencing radioheads

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Technology

Booted out

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Technology

Sparkling sounds

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Fast players get down to the nitty-gritty

News

Hepatitis helps out

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Dancing carrots

News

Robots to the rescue

News

Hubble cracks up

News

Pushbike peril

News

Chip maker celebrates marriage made in heaven

News

Anti-tan fan

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Robots on the brain

News

Laptops last longer with flower power

News

Gotta new motor?

News

We know who you are

News

X-ray vision

News

The 200-mile-high club

News

One small step

News

Look! No fillings

News

Pressure waves crack open sea defences

News

Global green belt

News

Hands off our telescopes

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Milk of human goodness

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Frontier society

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Meet Earth's creator

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Squeaky clean

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Eat to live

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The inner strength that keeps women going

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Booze ruse

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Midge magnet

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Rip up life's blueprint

News

Goodbye mad cow

News

Media frenzy distorts true picture of human epidemic

News

Bugs on the brain

News

Flood alert

News

Young suns go for it

News

Name that satellite

News

Smoking vaccine

News

BSE hits Japan

News

Possibly the cheapest vaccine in the world

News

The real rogue?

News

Opinion

Like human, like machine

Technology

Like human, like machine

Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law in the film AI
 I AM standing under a tree, looking at a squirrel on a bough above my head. The squirrel is looking at me. Eventually it decides to leave and swarms away, its action like a trigger, its tail following the parabola of retreat. It is a …

Opinion

Westminster diary

Opinion

Lies, damn lies and statistics

Opinion

You asked for advice, now act on it

Opinion

Features

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The Countess and the cure

In 1638, the beautiful Lady Ana de Osorio, Countess of Chinchon, had held court in her husband's palace in Lima for nine years. As wife of the Viceroy of Peru, her life had been one long whirl of balls, banquets and fiestas. But now she lay on her sweat-soaked bed stricken with malaria. The Count …

Features

You must remember this

Features

What could go wrong?

Features

Just say NO

Features

The worm that earned

Features

More

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The great escape

IT'S a wonder any of us are born. The womb seems a cosy place, but an unborn baby is essentially a foreign body inside its mother. Our immune system ferociously defends us against anything it recognises as "alien"—witness the constant threat of organ rejection faced by transplant patients. And yet we all made it into …

Inside Science

Body builders

Books & Arts

Cradled by the sea

Books & Arts

Live long and prosper

Books & Arts

Baby, it's cold outside

Books & Arts

Biowarfare in Canada

Books & Arts

Who's reading what

Books & Arts

Who's reading what

Books & Arts

Specks of evidence

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WONDERING whether to plan a day outdoors, reader Chris Shaw went, as one does these days, to the BBC's weather website at www.bbc.co.uk/weather . He was a little alarmed to read that the outlook for the west of England and Scotland and the whole of Wales and Ireland included "sunny spells". The overnight outlook, that …

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