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14 December 2002

Issue 2373

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Bloodlust

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The big O

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Breathing space

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The hunt for Planet X

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Theories flow for rivers on Mars

FEROCIOUS asteroid bombardments on Mars could have triggered scalding rain and flash floods that carved out the planet's giant river valleys billions of years ago. Mars must have been wet in the past for these valleys to have formed. The big question has always been how the planet could ever have been warm enough for …

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Software gambler takes on the tipsters

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Bacteria, viruses…it's all the same to D6R

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Malaria fails to get a grip on Melanesians

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We hear that…

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Xerox that circuit for me, would you…

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Sound of silence saves whales

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Army ants march to work with military efficiency

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Early Americans used first writing to promise loyalty

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Autoimmune bulimia?

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Flights of fancy

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Greed by degrees

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Smells like 7 o'clock

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A greener bubble

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Salvage hope for leaking oil

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Dispatches

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Space

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Fur flies over possum trapping

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Space station's lifeboat rescues prospects for research

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Water, water everywhere but many countries don't make the most of it

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Safety suffers in a slump

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Soundbites

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School league tables set up deceptive hierarchy

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Gene chip singles out deadliest tumours

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Technology

Hell's brake lights

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Technology

Runway runaways

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Technology

Snot fair, can't hear…

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Don't count on plants to save the world from global warming

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Holes in ice threaten to let greenhouse gas escape from the ocean's depths

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Did lava cover traces of asteroid impacts?

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How to run on thin air

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Misprinted citations finger scientists who fail to do their homework

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We hear that…

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Pollution triggers genetic defects

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For your very good health, here's a bottle of the latest Chardonnay

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Pollution is plunging us into darkness

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

WITH another firefighters' strike still on the cards at the time of writing, matters of public safety are well to the fore in the media. Something that sparked my interest and set me asking questions of ministers was the safety of steel fire doors. These are supposed to give people at least an hour to …

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The word geoid

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It's a wonderful life, according to David Attenborough

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To grow, or not to grow

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Chance of a lifetime

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Inactive service

The sea is grey and choppy. There's a splash. A body floats into view. An airman, forced to bail out of his burning plane, is bobbing up and down in the waves. His life jacket keeps him afloat, but he's lying face down, arms and legs dangling helplessly beneath the water. In the standard wartime …

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Bloodlust

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The big O

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Breathing space

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The hunt for Planet X

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Lion Tamarins: Biology and conservation by Devra Kleiman and Anthony Rylands

Lion Tamarins: Biology and conservation by Devra Kleiman and Anthony Rylands, Smithsonian Institution Press, $45, ISBN 1588340724 Reviewed by Adrian Barnett FORTY years ago, Adelmar Coimbra-Filho received the shock of his life while walking through a fragment of Brazil's Atlantic Coastal Forest: a small monkey fell on his head. It wasn't the event itself that …

Books & Arts

The Solar Economy by Hermann Scheer

Books & Arts

Shipwrecked

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Novels and nirvana

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Bestsellers - Oxford

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Tragedy train

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Regulars

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Feedback

IT'S good to see government think tanks using their observational skills to the full. As evidence, reader Kevin Jump quotes from the recent report Waste Not, Want Not: A strategy for tackling the waste problem from a British government strategy unit: "England has traditionally relied on landfill because of the country's abundance of holes…" FEEDBACK …

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