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8 December 2001

Issue 2320

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Season's greetings

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Parasites in paradise

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Life

Return of the mummy makers

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Image is everything

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Voices from the past

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High society

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Beat you to the tape

Races in the next Olympics could look a little crowded on television if Israeli researchers get their way. As well as human athletes, Orad Hi-Tec Systems wants to show animated virtual athletes too (EP 1128668). Virtual competitors superimposed on the real race could be programmed to run, swim or ski as fast as the current …

News

Technology

Clean air

News

Internal affairs

News

The mouse that sniffed and roared

News

Lilliputian lizard

News

Red giant blues

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It's so dark

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Packed with plankton

News

Waving hello

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Big breaths

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Private simulator

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Giant space stacks

News

Pushy pilots are the right sort to steer their own course

News

Technology

Enhancing the stone

News

Rock the hive

News

No one likes a back-seat boss

News

Tails of the deep

News

Seizure filter

News

Now where did I put that bazooka?

News

Electric tints

News

Overdub the ogre

News

Second sight

News

Made-to-measure

News

Don't snip, clip

News

Through the keyhole

News

Too hot to handle

News

If you think you're overworked, think again

News

Lost in the post

News

Speak your mind

News

Brains of Britain

News

The ones that got away

News

Ritalin's not a recipe for coke fiends

News

You can't cure chaos

News

The pound is dead

News

Dashed hopes

News

Slow to grow

News

Grave error

News

Blind trust

News

In the pink

News

Anthrax hunt homes in on research labs

News

Let there be light

News

No sign of the God particle

News

Meaty matter

News

Awkward questions

News

Opinion

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King Concrete

John Knapton 's passion for concrete has taken him places. He helped develop a fireproof lining for the Channel Tunnel. He invented a device to stop vandals knocking over gravestones. He is tribal chief of a village in Ghana. Now Lloyd's, the insurance group, has employed him to assess the collapse of the World Trade …

Opinion

Westminster diary

Opinion

That personal touch

Opinion

Keeping the faith

Opinion

Features

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Out in paperback

"I MUST admit now that I am not your usual unbiased, emotionally detached book reviewer. I was heavily involved with the discovery [of self-organising criticality] in 1987," wrote Per Bak, theoretical physicist at Imperial College, London, when he reviewed Mark Buchanan's Ubiquity (Phoenix, £8.99) for New Scientist last year (11 November 2000, p 56). "Bearing …

Features

Season's greetings

Features

Parasites in paradise

Features

Life

Return of the mummy makers

Features

Image is everything

Features

Voices from the past

Features

High society

Features

More

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Subs into ploughshares

Building the Trident Network by Maggie Mort, MIT, £22.95, ISBN 0262133970 THE MANAGER in your life needs to read what happened when, in the early 1980s, some Quakers suggested to shipbuilding unions that they should make washing machines instead of Trident submarines. The idea did not go down well. But, as Maggie Mort manages, amidst …

Books & Arts

STARRY-EYED CITY SLICKERS

Books & Arts

Which is best?

Books & Arts

If you're happy and you know it

Books & Arts

Power player

Books & Arts

The Pursuit of Oblivion by Richard Davenport-Hines

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE LONDON Evening Standard recently published a reader's letter which stated as unqualified fact that "a fraud company has designed a device whereby once you press #90 or 09# (at the request of a cold caller purporting to be a cellphone service engineer) they can access your SIM card and make calls at your expense". …

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