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15 December 2001

Issue 2321

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Health

Hard cheese

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Rider on the storm

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Off-beat

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Ghost in the machine

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News

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What's on the menu?

WILDLIFE researchers have come up with a simple way to figure out who's eating who. They say a sea lion's blubber should reveal what fish it has been munching on, which could help solve a debate over Alaska's fishing policy. But other scientists insist the technique will never work. The US government and courts have …

News

End in sight

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A quick twist and it's off

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Parasite wars

News

Go-faster Universe may just be a trick of the light

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Going round the bend

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Melting away

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Impossible to ape

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Just like home

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If smallpox gets out...

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Move over, Hubble

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Forceps failure

News

To be strong you've got to give a little

News

Genetic roulette

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Life force

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Trust the people

News

Hold back the flood

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The great escape

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No deal

News

One cell to heal them all

News

Death knell sounds for nuclear energy

News

Raising the alarm

News

Huge chunk of our genome is set to be privatised

News

Laser thermometer

News

Chilled out

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Soya film has fresh fruit all wrapped up

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A gift for language

News

Technology

Deep background

News

Technology

Balloon rescue

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Technology

Find that bomb

News

Burning issue

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Getting warmer still

News

Seeing the light

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Water on Mars

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Bitter pill

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Cry wolf

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Kamikazes in your head

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What overdose?

News

If you want to lock up carbon, just add limestone

News

Mexican waves hit space

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They're out to get you

News

Viruses supply arms for the war on bacteria

News

Wandering plumes

News

Opinion

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Good for parents, bad for baby

SINCE its introduction in the early 1990s, controversy has dogged the IVF technique called intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection. ICSI involves injecting a single sperm into an egg and is used mainly when men cannot fertilise an egg because their sperm count is too low or their sperm abnormal. A series of recent studies has associated ICSI …

Opinion

Squeaky clean

Opinion

Waiting for rain

Opinion

Westminster diary

Opinion

Life

Without walls

Opinion

Features

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Health

Hard cheese

ALL it takes is a few sessions a week at the gym, lots of calcium-packed, low-fat dairy products, and an occasional steak, and your bones and biceps will stay strong and sturdy for decades to come. Right? Not according to a small but growing band of nutritional heretics. According to their disturbing theory, the thinning …

Features

Rider on the storm

Features

Off-beat

Features

Ghost in the machine

Features

More

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Ian Wilmut

Ian Wilmut, creator of Dolly the cloned sheep at Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, has been reading What Mad Pursuit by Francis Crick (Basic Books, 1990). Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA, and having read Watson's account of events surrounding the breakthrough in Genes, Girls and Gamow (Knopf, reviewed 24 November) , Wilmut was …

Books & Arts

Frances Ashcroft

Books & Arts

Eat your heart out

Books & Arts

Lucky dip

Books & Arts

Fly me to the Moon

Books & Arts

Daydream believer

Books & Arts

So Mir, yet so far

Books & Arts

Shock of the now

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

ARE ADULTS capable of learning from children? Yes, they are—with some help from psychologists. Gerald Winer, a professor at Ohio State University, asked a group of nine-year-olds and a group of college students a series of questions along the lines of "Do you see with your fingers?" and "Do you hear with your nose?". Almost …

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