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21 September 2002

Issue 2361

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Dammed lies

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Pulling power

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The mind readers

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Death in the family

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Seven wonders

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News

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A real superhero

AFTER eight years as a quadriplegic, Christopher Reeve has defied medical science by regaining limited sensation and movement in his body. Reeve's regimen includes two hours weekly on a special bicycle that moves his muscles with electrical stimulation, and aquatherapy, which allows him to practise the regained movements in water. Though he is unlikely to …

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Faster and further

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Last supper

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A simple story that just went pear-shaped

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Elephant enigma

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Arthouse fever

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British association

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The ultimate stealth attack

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The mini that roared

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Make electricity the Fabergé way

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Third World TV runs on heat from the stove

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It's wet out there

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Technology

Making mush of mozzies

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Technology

Powering the Net

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Technology

Cheque this out

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Australia agonises over stem cells

News

Swiss kids first to feel benefits of worldwide drop in asthma

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Is there a safe limit for weedkillers?

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NASA gambles on 'son of Hubble'

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Gene data slows drug discovery

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Go easy on the manure

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Can Earth's magnetic field sway gravity?

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Turning up the heat makes flies fancy the same sex

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The wright stuff

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Corals play rough over Darwin's paradox

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How boom can turn to bust

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Spotlight reveals cells' secret life

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UN is slipping modified food into aid

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'Second moon' is junk from Apollo mission

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Soundbites

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Patents rip off the poor

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We hear that…

News

Terrorists ready to seize Iraqi weapons

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Dispatches

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Cause célèbre activists go on trial

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Africans go back to the land as plants reclaim the desert

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

THE editorial "Surfing for a Satan bug" (New Scientist, 20 July, p 5) provided a truly chilling read. It questioned whether putting huge quantities of genetic information on public databases gives bioterrorists an easy route to construct hideous bugs. Science minister David Sainsbury tells me that it's an area ministers and government officials are now …

Opinion

The word antarctese

Opinion

Call of the wild

Opinion

Who's to say that therisk is worth taking?

Opinion

Desert myths won't feed hungry mouths

Opinion

A tale of some gravity

Opinion

Features

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Dammed lies

They got him in the end. The man known to his numerous friends among the Egyptian peasantry as "Wilguks" was finally cornered by the British colonial establishment in the Supreme Consular Court of Egypt in 1921. Charged with sedition and criminal libel during a scientific spat about the flow of the Nile, the 70-year-old builder …

Features

Pulling power

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The mind readers

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Death in the family

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Seven wonders

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Dust to dust

IT GETS everywhere…in your eyes, up your nose, deep into your lungs. And given the right conditions, dust can hitch a ride on the wind and travel the globe. In April this year, skiers in the Swiss Alps got a dramatic reminder of just how mobile it can be when some 80,000 tonnes of fine …

Inside Science

United we stare

Books & Arts

Decipher the past

Books & Arts

Down in the forest

Books & Arts

Brilliant and sane

Books & Arts

Of Moths and Men by Judith Hooper (2002)

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE Great Depression gave birth to the venerable board game Monopoly. The dotcom collapse now has its counterpart – a card game called Burn Rate, from a company called Cool Studio. Players start with four cards, each representing an employee in their "company", and $100 million in investment. Like most real dotcoms, players can't make …

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