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6 July 2002

Issue 2350

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Dead man's leg

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The book of revelation

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Rock 'n' roll suicide

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Begone! evil genes

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Electric reefs

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Table of contents

News

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Take-off in a tornado

SWIRLING vortices caused by jet planes taking off and landing may linger in the atmosphere long enough to interfere with the next plane off the tarmac. These vortices form pairs of horizontal tornadoes that can spin at speeds of around 360 kilometres an hour. Philip Saffman and David Hill at the Californian Institute of Technology …

News

Four-legged fish

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When the fat bird sings

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Vision at midnight

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We hear that…

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There's a bug in my mouthwash

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Wily hunters

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Rewarding robots for good behaviour

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Keep your ear on the Internet, there could be a big one on the way

News

Darwin forges fittest metals

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Is it less cruel if the animals 'want' to do it?

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Minibeast muscles in on robot limbs

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Saxon hordes ousted celts

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Dash for cash killed digital TV pioneer

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It's an echo from the fifth dimension

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Technology

Mobiles get a trash can

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Technology

How to be a hero

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Technology

Clearly trendier

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Breathe easy, there's air and water on mars

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Power struggle

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Light turns liquid

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We hear that…

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Soundbites

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Concern grows over Thai AIDS 'vaccine'

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Secret plan to revive British nuclear power industry

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Disease fears

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Drugs will soon taste like candy

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Space

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Market forces 'are the way to save the planet'

News

US terror warning

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Physicists slam oil claim

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Dispatches

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Fire consumes desert landscape

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Ghostly spacecraft returns from dead to haunt its startled owners

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Missions impossible while NASA investigates mystery shuttle cracks

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Drug genes could enter food chain

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Life

Bigger is better when it comes to the G spot

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

BRITAIN is pressing for the European Commission to draw up legislation clamping down on the many chemicals still in use that can damage both human health and the environment. Michael Meacher, the environment minister, tells me the government is concerned that there are still so many chemicals for which even basic health and environmental data …

Opinion

The democs game

Opinion

Female intuition

Opinion

A child's right to know

Opinion

Here we go again

Opinion

Features

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Life

Dead man's leg

When Captain Cook was killed on Hawaii's Kealakekua beach in 1779, his assailants made off with his corpse. A few days later, a native priest returned Cook's butchered body to his ship the Resolution, and the man who had sailed three times around the world was buried at sea. Or was he? Several decades later, …

Features

The book of revelation

Features

Rock 'n' roll suicide

Features

Begone! evil genes

Features

Electric reefs

Features

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Words from the wild

Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver, Faber and Faber, £12, ISBN 0571215769 Reviewed by Maggie McDonald WHITE letters chalked on a blackboard in Sri Lanka are the first things I remember reading. The pleasure of deciphering that first word (cat, of course) remains with me to this day. By age 11, I read a book a …

Books & Arts

Verve in adversity

Books & Arts

Bestsellers London

Books & Arts

Memetic mohicans

Books & Arts

Beastly obsessions

Books & Arts

On firm ground

Books & Arts

A life in life

Books & Arts

Just get the connection

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

IT OUGHT to be simple. Nature is Nature, New Scientist is New Scientist and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is…well, PNAS. But if you think the naming of journals is always so straightforward, then pity the poor librarian who has to deal with finding the right volume and issue when it comes to …

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