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1 June 2002

Issue 2345

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Out in paperback

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That old black magic

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Fire down below

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Resisting the dark side

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No Dodo

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Who wants to be a millionaire?

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Stop stressing

THERE'S no need to quit your high-powered job on the grounds of health. Stress alone probably won't make you drop dead of a heart attack. John MacLeod and colleagues from the University of Birmingham say people have got the wrong idea about stress because in previous studies most of the people who were stressed also …

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Prison food

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Healing hole

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Technology

Wuff justice

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Technology

No pay, no talk

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Technology

Dressing-down for air-ragers

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Relax: you're not that tempting

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Top marks

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Plane different

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The wetter sex

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After the flood

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Organ minder

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Democracy goes online

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Birds'-eye view

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Louder and clearer

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Saline solution

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The ultimate computer

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After Napster, it's Web radio in the firing line

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Crowd control

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Mini black holes do the monster munch

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Spuds they like

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We'll be ready next time

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Double trouble

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Massive attack

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It's dark out there

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Supermarket challenge

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How feathers are putting a tail on pollution

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Looks familiar?

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The last straw

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Bug rewrites the genetic textbook

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Sleep with the boss

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No more heroes

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Fired up

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Water, water everywhere

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The icehouse effect

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Nightmare scenario

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Dead in the water

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Birds and bees

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Creationists fight back

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Double exposure

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Compulsive cleanliness is next to godliness

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Cut to pieces

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Opinion

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Westminster diary

GALILEO is an outstanding satellite navigation and positioning project being funded by the European Union to the tune of £3 billion. It will be even more precise than the GPS network, which is run free of charge by the US under the auspices of the Pentagon. And there's the rub because, as New Scientist emphasised …

Opinion

High moors drifter

Opinion

Designed for life

Opinion

Yes, Prime Minister

Opinion

Features

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Out in paperback

THIS month offers either unashamed fun, or the virtue rating of a couple of worthy-but-dull ecobooks. Nick Arnold's The Body Owner's Handbook (Scholastic, £3.99) gets you off to a frivolous start. Full of the "Horrible Science" series hallmarks—puns, disgusting detail stirred up with the facts—it will amuse any child preoccupied with pus, vomit, snot and …

Features

That old black magic

Features

Fire down below

Features

Resisting the dark side

Features

No Dodo

Features

Who wants to be a millionaire?

Features

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Solar flair

Journey from the Center of the Sun by Jack B. Zirker, Princeton University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0691057818 UP, DOWN, in or out? If that's about as much attention as you pay the Sun, you're ignoring something mind-boggling. Did you know that it loses a million tonnes every second in the form of light alone? That's …

Books & Arts

From Certainty to Uncertainty by F. David Peat

Books & Arts

Powerfull stuff

Books & Arts

Worry beads

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Tune into waves

Books & Arts

Dying water

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

IF YOU work in an office, perhaps you should be washing your hands before you go to the lavatory rather than after, or better still both. University of Arizona microbiologist Chuck Gerba has discovered that the average office desk is a veritable menagerie of microbes, with 400 times the bacterial load of the average toilet …

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