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13 July 2002

Issue 2351

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Dr Doom-monger I presume

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Wanted: bloodsuckers

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Green foundations

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Life

Virtuous nature

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Your money or your life

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Table of contents

News

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Killer kit

AN ANTIDOTE to the pungent odours that waft from sports bags could be at hand. Dave Worley and his team at Auburn University in Alabama have developed polyester fibres that kill the bacteria responsible for the pong on contact. Worley linked chemical groups called halamines to polyester fibres, which can be woven into garments or …

News

Throw the big'uns back in the sea

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Blast that landmine

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A new game for Kevin Bacon to play

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These mountains are on the march

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Home and dry

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Sound barrier

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High-flying memories

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Fear and fever

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Mouse sperm jump aboard the love train

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Do nose cells know how to bridge the spinal gap?

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We hear that…

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Technology

Improve your presentation

News

Technology

There's a beast in your TV

News

Technology

Birthday with a bang

News

Fewer genes, better health

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First sighting of the event horizon

News

'Dumb' hominids made it out of Africa

News

Icy puzzle comes to a watery end

News

The scandal of IVF league tables

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African fisheries on brink of collapse

News

Technology

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If the Universe is spinning, here's how to feel it

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Can a healing light save pilots' sight?

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How planes avoid each other

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Is it time to give airliners the freedom of the skies?

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Horse power beats diesel

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Soundbites

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Kids' hats fail the UV test

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Pinatubo dust is still a killer

News

Dispatches

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Earliest ancestor unearthed

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

MOST people are alert to the health hazards of Salmonella-infected poultry. However, few have even heard of Campylobacter infections. But I recently discovered that half of all chicken in our shops is contaminated with this bacterium. At a conference held in Budapest earlier this year, the World Health Organization and the UN's Food and Agricultural …

Opinion

E-science

Opinion

Feeling our way...

Opinion

A hard habit to break

Opinion

The people vs patents

Opinion

Features

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Dr Doom-monger I presume

The "fountains" of Kuru man watered the gardens of one of Britain's earliest missionary stations in southern Africa. But when the great spring on the edge of the Kalahari Desert seemed to falter, the country's most famous missionary and explorer, David Livingstone, warned that the continent was turning to desert. It was the start of …

Features

Wanted: bloodsuckers

Features

Green foundations

Features

Life

Virtuous nature

Features

Your money or your life

Features

More

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Rebels without a cause

CANCER strikes one in three people in the developed world, and almost all of us are touched by it sooner or later. To find out what causes this devastating disease, scientists are focusing on the genes that choreograph cell behaviour. Cell division is a crucial part of life from the moment of fertilisation to the …

Inside Science

Superhighway dreaming

Books & Arts

Take care, now

Books & Arts

Bubble, bubble…

Books & Arts

As hot as hell

Books & Arts

Reasons to be cheerful

Books & Arts

Patrick Moore

Books & Arts

Storm Dunlop

Books & Arts

A visitor's guide to the Red Planet

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FOLLOWING the "Antidisclaimer" we published on 23 February, reader Nadine McCarthy has sent us another – and this time we were able to track down its creator, David Taylor of Mount Lawley, Western Australia. It's too long to give in full, but here's a taster. "Important: This email is intended for the use of the …

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