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10 November 2001

Issue 2316

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Miss Eleanor's shilling

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Coat of many colours

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Round the twist

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Power dressing

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My friend nicotine

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Diabetes advice online

The dotcom revolution may have fizzled out, but interesting new ideas keep popping up. Aradigm of California is patenting a system that helps diabetic people use the Internet to stabilise their glucose levels (WO 01/59570). Although diabetics can already use glucose monitors and a PC to store data on how their levels vary, there is …

News

Technology

Flights of fancy

News

Technology

Flat screens' dark secret

News

Unforgettable, that's what you are . . .

News

Alzheimer's clue

News

What a turn-off

News

Penguin cuddles

News

Trapped radical

News

Space veteran retires

News

Fate sealed for asbestos

News

Drug pusher

News

Wired for smell

News

Sun screen

News

Once is never enough

News

Golden gateway

News

We know what you're printing…

News

Family brains

News

Don't panic, that runny nose isn't anthrax

News

Basic instinct

News

Distance no object for the average brain

News

Birds do it, divas do it

News

Star's swansong is a big hit on Earth

News

Shock treatment

News

One in the eye

News

Not-so-hot shot

News

Cookies crumble

News

Back from the dead

News

Cotton-pickin' farce

News

Fruit to suit

News

Houston, we have a stone

News

Killer armpits

News

Birthplace of the frozen streakers

News

A safe clean swim

News

Wriggle into rubble

News

Ready for anything

News

UN warns of nuclear terrorism

News

Total recoil

News

Save a songbird

News

Cleaner water

News

Fatal bubble

News

Watch your step, NASA

News

Dirty dealing

News

Try again, Mr President

News

Is this the trick that proves homeopathy isn't hokum?

News

Opinion

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Westminster diary

NOT since the year 313 when the Roman Emperor Constantine got religion and baptised his army by marching them through a river has there been such a conversion. Left-wing MPs, once resolutely against civil nuclear power, are now facing up to reality and showing some sympathy for British Energy's "Replace nuclear with nuclear" campaign. For …

Opinion

Land of the free?

Opinion

Emergency service

Opinion

Can't quit, won't quit

Opinion

Features

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Miss Eleanor's shilling

For a stout, middle-aged spinster, Eleanor Ormerod had an unseemly interest in insects. In Victorian times, well-bred women didn't mess with moths and maggots, weevils and wasps. Yet by the end of the century, Miss Ormerod's passion for pests had made her one of the most popular women in Britain. To farmers, fruit growers and …

Features

Coat of many colours

Features

Round the twist

Features

Power dressing

Features

My friend nicotine

Features

More

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The past by numbers

Statisticians of the Centuries edited by C. C. Heyde and E. Seneta, Springer-Verlag, £33, ISBN 03879532837 A COLLECTION of biographies of great statisticians sounds about as gripping as Great Moments in Chartered Accountancy. Still, as any statistician will tell you, pull together enough people and you're bound to find some whose lives are far from …

Books & Arts

Manhattan by night

Books & Arts

The death of trees

Books & Arts

A model world

Books & Arts

Bestsellers

Books & Arts

Look deep and deeper

Books & Arts

Doctoring the medics

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

JUNK E-MAILS are annoying enough. Cold-calls from salespeople—who invariably catch you just as you're about to sit down to dinner—are worse. So spare a thought for residents of Washington Township, a suburb of Indianapolis, who last August suffered a doubly irritating plague: a spate of late-night phone calls from a berserk computer. Marion County sheriff …

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The Last Word

Regulars

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Letters

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