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16 February 2002

Issue 2330

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This won't hurt a bit

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A whale of a time

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Westminster diary

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This won't hurt a bit

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Altar of the Druids

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Moonglow

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Rocks to riches

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Crunch point

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Shoot for the moon

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A whale of a time

IT WAS a great disappearing act. The 2000 blue whales that feed off the shores of California each summer are the largest surviving population of our planet's largest animal. But what happens to them when summer ends was anybody's guess. Bruce Mate of Oregon State University tagged around 100 whales during their summer California stay …

News

Arms out in front

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Race from home

News

Tiny fossil has guts

News

Breathe easy

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From aliens to anthrax

News

Block that phone

News

Honey, I forgot the kids...

News

Listen up

News

Smart polymer could keep an eye on your plastic

News

Wakey-wakey

News

Technology

Breakneck guitar

News

Technology

Rake, rattle and roll

News

Make light of jet lag

News

Technology

Thin end of the wedge

News

The secret of spiciness

News

Movie mountain

News

Call in the nanobots

News

A sure shot

News

Earth

Ocean boulevard

News

Earth

Don't rely on plankton to save the planet

News

Sick of war

News

Live fast, die young

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Perfect disguise

News

No uncertainty over Heisenberg's role in Nazi bomb

News

Health

Tough choices

News

A stab at the truth

News

Back to school

News

To be the best

News

You win some, you lose some

News

Siren's swan song?

News

Vanquish the vortex

News

Jurassic barf

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Murder most fowl

News

What the doctor ordered

News

Icy touch

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Incoming!

News

Cardiac quivers

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Cap a landfill—save the planet

News

Opinion

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Westminster diary

WHERE there's war, there's not a lot of concern about environmental damage. So New Scientist is almost alone among the British media in focusing on the plight of the Afghan people if their water-supply tunnels continue to be damaged by "bunker bombs" (17 November 2001, p 7) . These ancient tunnels normally run deep underground …

Opinion

The patient's story

Opinion

About face

Opinion

Come clean

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The world can't wait

Opinion

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Life

This won't hurt a bit

If you want to make it into the history books as a hero of medical science, you can't beat a bit of experimentation – on yourself, that is. Is a new drug safe? Take some and find out. Does that vaccine work? Try it and see. The only catch is that you have to survive …

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Altar of the Druids

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Moonglow

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Rocks to riches

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Crunch point

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Shoot for the moon

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A moveable feast

The Gutenberg Revolution: The story of a genius and an invention that changed the world by John Man, Review, £14.99, ISBN 0747245045 EUROPE changed for ever about 500 years ago. Johan Gutenberg's development of printing with moveable type allowed standardised texts to cross empires, spread knowledge and bring books to the masses. Between 1450 and …

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Que será, será

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Ruff times up North

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HEUREKA!

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All joined up?

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Opinion feedback

WE LIKE IT , but is it science? Self-styled bio-artist Adam Zaretsky pushed back aesthetic boundaries last week by spending eight days in the Workhorse Zoo, a tiny glass-walled room at the Salina Art Center, Kansas. For company, he had live specimens of the "workhorse" laboratory animals used in molecular biology: bacteria, yeast, flies, worms, …

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