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14 September 2002

Issue 2360

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Boy or girl?

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Monster ink

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Forbidden zone

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The bodyguard

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News

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That wide-eyed look reveals one sad cow

IF YOU want to know whether a cow is stressed, look into its eyes. Researchers at the Agricultural University of Norway in Äs took 24 Norwegian red cattle and starved them for seven hours. Half the cows were then fed, while the others were shown food but not allowed to eat. Following this "food tease", …

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Better than an orange

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Goodbye planet

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Rain of fire

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Slobs take heart

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Cold snap from space

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Just a sniff can stop strokes

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How fast is gravity?

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Shield against assassin's poison

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Gotta roll with it to keep ships afloat

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Space station should look down, not up

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Technology

Dirty money

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Technology

The best ads a man can get

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Technology

Life in the old TV yet

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Chips with sparkle

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Tape measure for the Earth

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Nicotine triggers cot death

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We hear that…

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Flash of light switches on pumpsin labs the size of postage stamps

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Meteorite impacts frequently trigger tsunamis

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Gene tweak will banish bad hair days

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How mothers-in-law got a bad name

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Dispatches

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Environment

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Silent killer could fell ancient giants of the California forests

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Terror warning over laptops

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Soundbites

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Science is listed as latest casualty of 11 September

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Life

Will one get away?

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Life

Coming soon to a tank near you

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Now even a very personal body part can be grown in a dish

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End of female circumcision?

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Engineering safer soya

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Asteroid threat is 'greater than ever'

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

THIS magazine recently had the temerity to report that under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 the government wants common-or-garden government departments to have snooper's rights to cyberspace data (New Scientist, 22 June, p 3) . I put the claim to Michael Wills, junior Home Office minister for IT and e-government policy, to gauge …

Opinion

The Word Earthworm

Opinion

I think, but who am I?

Opinion

Now find me an inventor for the cameras…

Opinion

Weapon of mass support

Opinion

Features

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Boy or girl?

LAST March Helen Lang had her fourth child, Catherine. It was a shock for her and her husband Chas and his family, who were convinced the new arrival would be another boy. Chas is one of three brothers, and between them they have produced six sons. Catherine is the first girl on Chas's side of …

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Monster ink

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Forbidden zone

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The bodyguard

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American beauties

Trilobites of New York by Thomas Whiteley, Gerald Kloc and Carlton Brett, Cornell University Press, $55, ISBN 0801439698 Reviewed by Richard Fortey ONCE amazingly abundant and varied, trilobites have been described as "the beetles of the Palaeozoic". They swarmed in their millions in and round the seas of the early Cambrian, 545 million years ago, …

Books & Arts

Telling tales

Books & Arts

London's leading light

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Cambridge

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What are you like?

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Across the wide Sargasso Sea

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

SILLY theory of the week comes via the Japanese news site Mainichi, which features "saucy stories from Japan's wild weeklies". ( http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai ). According to Rikao Yanagida, described by Mainichi as "head of a think tank", the dinosaurs died out not because of an asteroid impact but because they made too much noise when they …

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