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Issue 2328

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Torque it up

WHAT looks like a flying saucer, takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane? The next remote-controlled surveillance aircraft on the hunt for terrorist fugitives like Osama bin Laden, apparently. Pilotless aircraft came into their own in the Afghan conflict, greatly reducing casualties in US Air Force and ground troops on both reconnaissance …

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Jelly good show

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Blue, with a hint of life

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Global killer

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The ice age cometh

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Picture of happiness

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Technology

Looks like a bomb

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Cunning squirrels find that crime pays

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Technology

Clear view

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Technology

Canine cover

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Waste nut want nut, say Malaysian builders

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It's socket science

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One giant leap for yeast

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Shock of the new

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Screen grab

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Hot wired

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Reptiles at four o'clock

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The first experiment

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On the brink

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Health

Look to Europe for a second opinion

News

Out of the void

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Cook on high power

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Bioterror alert

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Space blackout

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Health

Crisis of confidence

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Health

Can we trust the doctors?

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Bone stem cells can fill in the gaps

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The end of the world

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Star's swan song

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Reaping the rewards

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Strike it rich

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Waiter, there's a shark in my soup

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Whale is becoming an endangered taste in Japan

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Testicular transplant

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Don't get used to it

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Teddy in bugs scandal

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Top of the hacks

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A lesson in tolerance

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Take a thousand eggs…

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Divided we fall

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Opinion

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Magnificent obsession

He was sent over to train in Britain by his rich family. They just wanted him to come home and become a successful doctor in India. But Devi Prasad Shetty had bigger plans. After specialising as a cardiologist at Guy's Hospital in London in the 1980s, Shetty spent the next 12 years pioneering low-cost heart …

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Watching me, watching you

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Dare to change

Opinion

Westminster Diary

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Caught out again

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A matter of life and death

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IT COULDN'T be simpler. Just take a length of stiff but bendable tubing and connect the ends with a short piece of more flexible pipe to form a loop. Before you seal the loop, fill the tubes with water—perhaps laced with some drops of coloured oil so you can see any flow. Now rhythmically squeeze …

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The great giveaway

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Like father like husband

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HERE IS a story of motes, beams and Greek archaeologists. Last year, Greece tried desperately to save ancient artefacts from destruction by the Taliban after Mullah Omar decreed that the great statues of Buddha in the Bamian province should be blown up. Greece offered to buy these and any other pre-Islamic statues and to house …

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