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20 July 2002

Issue 2352

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Coming up trumps

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Mamma mia

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Ready for your close-up?

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Strange attraction

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News

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Soundbites

"This bill is unquestionably the most important step taken in this country to control greenhouse emissions since 1998, when the Clinton administration signed the Kyoto Protocol." New York Times leader on Californian legislation that would force car makers to limit carbon dioxide emissions (8 July) "None of us wants to be one of the eight …

News

Toothpick test turns cellphones into a drug dealer's worst enemy

News

Spamming won't get you the answer

News

Ray of hope for test ban treaty

News

Should the genetic sequences of deadly diseases be kept secret?

News

How to make a killer virus

News

Tough to untangle

News

Soothing venom

News

A shock foretold

News

Sweet prehistory

News

It's hotter with us

News

Primitive immune system offers AIDs hope

News

Technology

Fluorescent guts

News

Technology

Fast food, instant rubbish

News

Technology

Cutting-edge castor oil

News

Hope lies in flair for logic

News

Man wielding pen and paper knocks baseball tradition clean out of the park

News

The rise of the "three Rs"

News

World waits for a breakthrough

News

Hollywood taps into your deepest secrets

News

Get a voice to rouse the masses

News

Just a swift half for those PMS blues

News

Life

Building block of life found in deep space

News

Life

Will we be wiped out by a super-eruption?

News

Life

If ET's out there, we'll find him

News

Is the last hope for certainty gone?

News

We hear that…

News

Journey through milky way keeps us cool

News

Getting tough on ageing

News

Foot and mouth needs new strategy

News

Dispatches

News

Vive les animaux

News

Islanders 'can't go home'

News

Environment

News

Opinion

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Surfing for a satan bug

THERE has never been an information explosion like it. Researchers have already deciphered the complete genetic blueprints for one insect, two mammals, dozens of bacteria and a staggering 833 viruses. And more genomes are on the way: the umpteen billions of letters of DNA code now sitting in computer databases are just the start. The …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Abyssal plains

Opinion

Unofficial channels

Opinion

This debate is getting silly

Opinion

Features

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Coming up trumps

THERE'S not much Persi Diaconis can't do with a deck of cards. As well as the usual tricks, he can perform many of his own devising, and without a hint of boastfulness he declares that when he shuffles a deck – even with only one hand – the cards interleave in perfect sequence. But unlike …

Features

Mamma mia

Features

Technology

Ready for your close-up?

Features

Strange attraction

Features

More

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Fat and fertile

Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection by Rose E. Frisch, University of Chicago Press, £13/$20, ISBN 0226265455 "YOU can never be too rich or too thin" is a quip often attributed to the famously skinny Wallis Simpson. But Rose Frisch is not laughing. For years, she's battled against both scientific prejudice and the fashion …

Books & Arts

Put that in your pipe

Books & Arts

Bestsellers online

Books & Arts

Numbers game

Books & Arts

Stargazer's saga

Books & Arts

Snapping the maya

Books & Arts

Window on the world

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THOSE lucky enough to have visited the American Southwest or Mexico may have fond memories of tamales, the cornmeal-based staple of Mexican cuisine. One of Feedback's correspondents in New York City heard that you can now order tamales online from New Mexico, and decided to investigate. He clicked on SantaFeTamales.com , which offers several varieties …

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