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27 October 2001

Issue 2314

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Finger of suspicion

Features
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Desert harvest

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Did the Egyptians build pyramids with kites?

Features
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The writing's on the screen

Features
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Mental gymnastics

Features

Table of contents

News

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Surf's up and up and up

GOOD news for surfers, bad news for beach lovers—California's waves are getting bigger. Research has shown Atlantic waves growing over the past few decades, but data for the Pacific has been patchy. Now Nicholas Graham from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego has used a collection of wind speed data to back-calculate stormy …

News

Nipplecam

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Escape the death star

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Thought that counts

News

Frying the flag

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Lazy does it

News

Perfect tee for newbie golfers

News

The heat is on

News

Play to win

News

Technology

Home base

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Foam'll fix it

News

Technology

Perfect points

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Technology

Hold it right there

News

Head in the clouds

News

Environment

A giant leap for lemurs

News

Evolve or die

News

Tired of troubleshooting? You need a computer with an immune system

News

Health

Full circle

News

Other Earths

News

Safely tucked up

News

NASA in need

News

Health

The great brain blunder

News

Health

Here we go again

News

Red-hot legacy

News

Stinky drinkies

News

Stormy stars

News

TB boost

News

Worst-case scenario

News

Cancer row

News

Health

Out of the blue

News

Health

Vital moments

News

Health

Bioterror catches hospitals napping

News

Countdown to crisis

News

Health

Trail of terror

News

Opinion

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Respect the stones

GIVEN the apocalyptic times we're living in, you could be forgiven for having missed this peculiarly English row. But I make no apologies for raising it—especially since this weekend will be crucial to what happens next. First some history. People have been arguing about the environs of Stonehenge for at least a century—and no wonder. …

Opinion

Back to basics

Opinion

One BSE fiasco that can't be buried

Opinion

Confusion reigns

Opinion

Washington diary

Opinion

Features

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Finger of suspicion

A police constable investigating a burglary at a crockery warehouse in the Clerkenwell district of London one September night in 1909 made a gruesome discovery. The warehouse yard was protected by a high wooden gate with a row of iron spikes along the top. As the constable flashed his lamp along the top of the …

Features

Desert harvest

Features

Did the Egyptians build pyramids with kites?

Features

The writing's on the screen

Features

Mental gymnastics

Features

More

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Know your enemy

Germs by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, Simon & Schuster, $27/£18.30, ISBN 0684871580 IT seemed pretty illogical at the time. On 11 September, a band of terrorists hijacked airplanes and crashed them deliberately into buildings in the US, killing thousands. A week later, Germs—a recent history of biological weapons—sold out across the US. …

Books & Arts

Educating Charles

Books & Arts

Corpse: Nature, forensics and the struggle to pinpoint time of death by Jessica Snyder Sachs

Books & Arts

John Casti

Books & Arts

The Fred and Chandra show

Books & Arts

Indiana Jones he wasn't

Books & Arts

Speaker for the dead

Books & Arts

Carl Djerassi

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

SINCE 11 September, press releases describing research findings have often borne the hallmarks of hasty rewriting to incorporate the word "terrorism" in the headline or introduction. Work on epidemiology or toxicology that has been going on for years is suddenly billed as a response to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. A story from …

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