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4 May 2002

Issue 2341

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Dinosaurs: Killer blow

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Global fix

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Out in paperback

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Ice cold in Sydney

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News

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Tied up in knots

HOW good would you be at tying knots through a tiny opening? It's a challenge that many surgeons are having to face, as keyhole surgery becomes more and more widespread. One of the toughest surgical techniques in keyhole surgery is tying stitches, or sutures, to close incisions. They have to be tied with the right …

News

Technology

Musical dinosaurs

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Technology

Cup-winners' cup?

News

Technology

Fuelling crime

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Hang up the phone in the car

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Pop goes the nanotube

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Wolf dogs

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Gently does it

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Age-old problem

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Galactic lifebelt

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Prions on the move

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Out of the frying pan

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And the prize for the first landlubber goes to…

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Rippling crystals

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Earthquakes in the sky

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Insects make a buzz on the music scene

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Dysfunctional droid

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Motor mouth

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Shooting on DVD

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Lasers on track

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Making waves

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It'll come out in the wash

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Trekkie tax

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Bugs on the loose

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Go on, get guzzling

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Don't pass it on

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Raising the dead

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Holes in the head

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The key to autism

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UN may get pivotal role in weapons inspection

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Rise and shine

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Babies' DNA stays with mother

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Dead man walking

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Flood hypothesis seems to hold no water

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No defence

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On the rocks

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There's no holiday from HIV

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EU halfway to Kyoto target

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Gene maverick comes clean

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What's inside?

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Party time for alien-hunters

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From minor to major

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Say hello to the RoboRat

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The hidden catch

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Going straight

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Opinion

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Barefoot Pioneers

THE narrow road out of Tilonia is so full of potholes that Bhanwar Jat prefers to drive our jeep on the desert earth beside it whenever he can. If you didn't know who he was, you'd think this quiet, scruffily handsome man with the gold flower ear stud was "just" the driver. Earlier that morning, …

Opinion

Saving the world on a dollar a day

Opinion

Life of Craig

Opinion

Because it's there

Opinion

Westminster diary

Opinion

Plays for today

Opinion

The value of listening

Opinion

Slum TV

Opinion

Village-life.com

Opinion

Local heroes

Opinion

Features

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Life

Dinosaurs: Killer blow

A METEOR the size of San Francisco hurtles towards the Earth at 20 kilometres a second, smashes into the tropical lagoons of the Gulf of Mexico and gouges a hole 20 times as deep as the Grand Canyon. The mammoth crater quickly collapses and a tidal wave surges outwards. Fires sweep across North and South …

Features

Global fix

Features

Out in paperback

Features

Ice cold in Sydney

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Brave new biography

Aldous Huxleyby Nicholas Murray, Little, Brown, £20, ISBN 0316854921 THIS is the first biography of Aldous Huxley for thirty years. It's based on much material unavailable until now and it's a brilliant job. Nicholas Murray is endlessly fascinating about the writer who became a symbol of intellectualism almost as much as Einstein did of science. …

Books & Arts

Star turn

Books & Arts

Eh?

Books & Arts

Prize imaginations

Books & Arts

Get it right

Books & Arts

Can you spot a sonoran woodrat?

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

IT CERTAINLY sounded like good news when NTT DoCoMo in Japan revealed plans for a lip-reading mobile phone (6 April, p 19) . But even if the company can get the system to work reliably, will the kind of people who talk loudly into mobile phones ever use it? Feedback was recently on a slow …

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