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24 November 2001

Issue 2318

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Life's a gas

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Health

Did bubonic plague really cause the Black Death?

Features
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Invasion of the nanonukes

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Lostworlds

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News

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Mind

Bloody antidote to coke

A CHEMICAL found in the blood of cocaine users could one day help counter the drug's potentially lethal side effects. In the US alone, millions of people use cocaine, and each year 150,000 end up in hospital emergency rooms with heart attacks or other side effects caused by the drug. These occur because cocaine interferes …

News

Cooler rhythms

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Lucky earwigs are doubly endowed

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Tanked

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You can count on DNA

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Bees and their trees

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Blood simple

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Mercury rising

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The Net next door

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Technology

And another thing…

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Technology

Keep up at the back

News

Technology

Not so cold turkey

News

True colours

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Muscle mats could put robots through their paces

News

Mind

Mental gymnastics

News

Mind

Brain, heal thyself

News

Printed power

News

Fly-tipping saves crops

News

Damsels help corals in distress

News

Wake-up call

News

Half man, half wolf

News

Keep your distance

News

Bestial bugs

News

Eviction time

News

Outlook lean for NASA

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Turn on, kill off

News

Domain dispute

News

The giant tadpole that spawned us all

News

No clones please

News

Wonder drugs

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Distant dream

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Pox reprieve

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Vitamin deaths

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Keep control

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Hollow promises

News

Battle cry

News

Opinion

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Washington diary

CONGRESS has an astonishing capacity for mixing urgent matters of state with some of the most trivial nonsense imaginable. Consider what happened earlier this month when the Senate was debating how much money to give to two federal departments—Labor, and Health and Human Services. Of all the spending bills that Congress considers, the Labor and …

Opinion

Body amazing

Opinion

Clones are human too

Opinion

Now call off the bullies

Opinion

Features

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Life's a gas

HERE'S a breathtaking idea: carbon monoxide might be good for your health. The deadly gas kills thousands of people each year, yet some scientists believe it could be a lifesaver. They say it could improve transplant patients' chances of survival, or even help people with asthma breathe more easily. Carbon monoxide is fast gaining a …

Features

Health

Did bubonic plague really cause the Black Death?

Features

Invasion of the nanonukes

Features

Lostworlds

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Good gadget guide

LIKE DOGS, techie toys are not just for Christmas. So while cupboards around the world bulge with gadgets bought on a whim and discarded once the novelty value has worn off, it doesn't have to be that way. Here are a few more durable trinkets. Philips has a neat solution to a perennial problem. MP3 …

Books & Arts

Get going

Books & Arts

Catching the wild ones in the act

Books & Arts

Must read

Books & Arts

choice is all

Books & Arts

A practical approach

Books & Arts

Instant know-all

Books & Arts

Might in the sky

Books & Arts

Game zone

Books & Arts

SHOTGUN SAVIOUR

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Words of genius

Books & Arts

Colour the World

Books & Arts

Dream on

Books & Arts

Songs of innocence and experience

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

GREAT TO hear that the music broadcaster MTV is going green, but . . . It has come to our attention that a press release about the MTV Europe Music Awards, staged in Frankfurt a couple of weeks ago, promised that "thousands of trees" would be planted to "reabsorb the carbon dioxide created in the …

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