Issue 2319 | Magazine cover date: 1 December 2001

1 December 2001

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A very English habit

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A very English habit

Features

Slaughter of the innocents

Features

Write here, write now

Features

Space

Blast from the vast

Features

Smart Bullets

Features

News

Far flung

POLLEN from genetically modified maize appears to have reached remote mountainsides in the wilds of Mexico. David Quist and Ignacio Chapela from the University of California at Berkeley found that the stray pollen had crossed with wild maize growing on mountainsides of the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca in southern Mexico. They suspect it came from …

News

Crash course

News

Crash ahead

News

Slippery fingers

News

Nothing is the answer

News

Call the tune

News

Could your laptop do better than an estate agent?

News

Dye hard

News

Technology

Lights burn bright

News

Technology

Iris pirates

News

Caught on camera

News

Having Mum for dinner

News

Hunting for gravity

News

Geeks are no longer freaks

News

Technology

Altered image

News

Fish out of water

News

Coolness under fire

News

Big chilly countries lose out under Kyoto

News

Chef's special

News

Seeds of destruction

News

Bring back Buddha

News

Cause for hope

News

Third place in the space race

News

Stopping diabetes

News

Slash and burn

News

Schizophrenia linked to sexually transmitted disease

News

Lively atmosphere

News

Moby's makeover

News

In space, no one gets to sleep

News

Bruising the Moon

News

Death in the post

News

An appetite for cancer

News

Money hurts

News

Shut it, say Irish

News

After the war

News

The dairy difference

News

The weakest link

News

Bioweapons treaty withers

News

Inoculate your mind

News

Brain pills

News

Holes in the hood

News

Humans

Don't expect any miracles

News

Getting warmer

News

Opinion

Westminster diary

MARGARET THATCHER and I had an intriguing exchange at the end of the 1970s. At a Prime Minister's Question Time, I asked her if she could persuade her Dutch counterpart to explain a mystery of the day: how crucial secrets were stolen from the world's most advanced enriched-uranium enterprise at Almelo in the Netherlands, only …

Opinion

All our futures

Opinion

Seizing tomorrow

Opinion

Brave new medicine

Opinion

A question of trust

Opinion

Features

A very English habit

Today it is Afghanistan. A couple of decades ago it was the "golden triangle" in South-East Asia. Before that it was India and Mexico, China and Turkey. Opium and the people who grow it were always the outsiders, the infidels, the Oriental fiends. Even as harassed Victorian mothers lulled their children to sleep with laudanum-laced …

Features

Slaughter of the innocents

Features

Write here, write now

Features

Space

Blast from the vast

Features

Smart Bullets

Features

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Books & Arts

Be careful out there

Books & Arts

The Bone Museum: Travels in the lost worlds of dinosaurs and birds by Wayne Grady

Books & Arts

Wind stirrers

Books & Arts

I think, therefore I am

Books & Arts

A Gap in Nature: Discovering the world's extinct animals by Tim Flannery

Books & Arts

Fictional Echoes

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

FOLLOWING in the footsteps of Sellafield (formerly Windscale) nuclear power station, the tobacco, food and brewing giant Philip Morris Companies Inc has just announced a new name for itself—Altria Group Inc. Why the change? Well, the company says that market research has demonstrated that the public feels it is "changing for the better and becoming …

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1 December 2001

On the cover

A very English habit

Slaughter of the innocents

Write here, write now

Space

Blast from the vast

Smart Bullets

Table of contents

News

Far flung

Crash course

Crash ahead

Slippery fingers

Nothing is the answer

Call the tune

Could your laptop do better than an estate agent?

Dye hard

Technology

Lights burn bright

Technology

Iris pirates

Caught on camera

Having Mum for dinner

Hunting for gravity

Geeks are no longer freaks

Technology

Altered image

Fish out of water

Coolness under fire

Big chilly countries lose out under Kyoto

Chef's special

Seeds of destruction

Bring back Buddha

Cause for hope

Third place in the space race

Stopping diabetes

Slash and burn

Schizophrenia linked to sexually transmitted disease

Lively atmosphere

Moby's makeover

In space, no one gets to sleep

Bruising the Moon

Death in the post

An appetite for cancer

Money hurts

Shut it, say Irish

After the war

The dairy difference

The weakest link

Bioweapons treaty withers

Inoculate your mind

Brain pills

Holes in the hood

Humans

Don't expect any miracles

Getting warmer

Opinion

Westminster diary

All our futures

Seizing tomorrow

Brave new medicine

A question of trust

Features

A very English habit

Slaughter of the innocents

Write here, write now

Space

Blast from the vast

Smart Bullets

More

Bestsellers

Be careful out there

The Bone Museum: Travels in the lost worlds of dinosaurs and birds by Wayne Grady

Wind stirrers

I think, therefore I am

A Gap in Nature: Discovering the world's extinct animals by Tim Flannery

Fictional Echoes

Regulars