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15 June 2002

Issue 2347

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Dream homes

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Lamb's tales

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Calls from the deep

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Truth or consequences

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Swallow this

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Table of contents

News

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Technology

Chips off the old block

Imperfect microchips cost chip makers millions of dollars a year. Up to half of the chips cut from each silicon wafer can be duds, but it's so expensive to identify individual faults that most are thrown away. To cut down on this wastage, Finnish communications company Nokia plans to divide the circuitry in each chip …

News

Banking on that walk down the aisle

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Slip sliding away

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Leviathan dreams

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Death after death

News

Firework forecast

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More fossils, no fooling

News

Technology

Flash flights

News

No burps, please

News

Wired orchestra that backs you all the way

News

Spot the bottleneck

News

Arsenic and old rock

News

Play it again

News

Dog's dinner

News

Technology

Fresh and tasty

News

Technology

Stop that fireball

News

Great balls of steel

News

Shutdown

News

Rodents to rat on criminals

News

All in the name

News

The great Mexican maize scandal

News

Dead as a dino

News

Is it worth worrying about?

News

Gene quest hots up

News

Development talks falter

News

Blighted lives

News

Going for gold

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The road to extinction

News

Danger signals

News

Asteroid's family tree

News

Skin cancer gene found

News

Big bang particle makes debut with double dose of charm

News

Accidental Armageddon

News

Sun struck

News

How the rich stole the rain

News

Miserly attitude to climate rubbished

News

Opinion

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Westminster diary

DO pregnant women risk a miscarriage if they spend a lot of time exercising in public swimming pools? New Scientist reported that a team at Imperial College, London, headed by Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, found these pools contained high levels of some by-products of chlorination that have been linked to miscarriage (13 April, p 17) . I …

Opinion

Nuts, bolts and dates

Opinion

The struggle for paradise

Opinion

Feed the world?

Opinion

Features

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Dream homes

A POPULAR song in the 1960s famously dismissed newly constructed Californian housing as "little boxes made out of ticky-tacky" that all looked just the same. And social critics have complained endlessly about the drab conformity of London's suburbs—suggesting occasionally, in despair, that people who chose to live in identical houses could never be expected to …

Features

Lamb's tales

Features

Calls from the deep

Features

Truth or consequences

Features

Swallow this

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Making it big

WHEN the lottery balls fall, anyone who's bought a ticket can't help willing the outcome to match their numbers. The reality is that the odds are heavily stacked against any particular combination coming up. In Britain's Lotto, for example, players pick six numbers between 1 and 49, so the chance of any given ticket hitting …

Inside Science

A nose for knowledge

Books & Arts

Bones of Contention: The Archaeopteryx scandals by Paul Chambers

Books & Arts

Dark matters

Books & Arts

Blooming marvels

Books & Arts

Nathaniel comfort

Books & Arts

Frank Furedi

Books & Arts

It wasn't rats

Books & Arts

Sitting pretty

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK was recently in Prague for an airline conference. The major airlines are all looking for someone or something to blame for the slump in their business (the much lower fares offered by airlines like EasyJet, Go and Ryanair don't count, of course). Fear of flying was high on the blame list. Dutch clinic VALK, …

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