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8 March 2003

Issue 2385

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The man who sold the sun

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Breathless

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Volcanic bombshell

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Deep impact

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Spambusters

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News

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Hard to gasp

CHILDREN routinely misreport asthma symptoms, suggesting that fewer people suffer from the disease than thought. Julian Crane from the University of Otago's Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand, and his team asked 300,000 children aged 13 to 14 in 38 countries if they ever wheezed. He then showed them a video of a real asthma …

News

Electrifying when wet

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Say nuts to malaria

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Nuclear strike

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Tangled trio

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Life

Silencing the pests

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Shape-shifter beats the laws of physics

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Why jojoba is not just a pretty face

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Life

Is there an antigene for every gene?

News

How to keep the curl out of a leaf

News

We hear that...

News

Technology

Implants get staying power

News

Technology

Can you see what it is yet?

News

Technology

Mobile overboard!

News

Sparking the ultimate explosion

News

Virtual workout beats the boredom for stroke patients

News

Text alerts offer asthma lifeline

News

Genetic tinkering turns one species into another

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Earth

Global warming puts freeze on reindeer

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Earth

A slicker way to clean up oil tanker spills

News

Antibodies can mop up deadly prions

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Undoing the twist could banish sickle cells

News

Phantom menace rips the cosmos apart

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Dispatches

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Soundbites

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Congressmen clash over NASA's future

News

Bush's climate proposals under fire

News

Technology

Crunch time for the SUV

News

HIV vaccine hopes still high

News

Risky types of HRT are identified

News

UN appeals to members 'please keep space tidy'

News

Srebrenica victims named at last

News

Search goes on for World Trade Center's missing

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Superbug strain hits the healthy

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

I AM deeply alarmed at the news that many British service people and reservists in the Gulf are unwilling to submit themselves to inoculations. In particular, they are reluctant to undergo simultaneous vaccination against anthrax and smallpox. Lewis Moonie, the junior defence minister, had told me last year that these injections would be spaced out. …

Opinion

Humans

Hypatia

Opinion

Angel of Africa

Opinion

The numbers don't add up

Opinion

Copy that...

Opinion

The plague that just keeps coming

Opinion

Features

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The man who sold the sun

"It has been a favorite pastime for the dreary gentlemen who juggle with statistics, solemnly to calculate the date on which we shall all freeze to death from exhaustion of the coal supply," Harper's Weekly noted dryly in 1903. It was not a new worry even then, for Britain's geologists had been summoned to Parliament …

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Breathless

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Volcanic bombshell

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Deep impact

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Spambusters

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Albert through the ages

The Einstein Scrapbook by Ze'ev Rosenkranz, Johns Hopkins University Press, $22.50/£16.50, ISBN 0801872030 Reviewed by Roy Herbert This is pure enjoyment. The Einstein Scrapbook contains, of course, a short and good biography and concise summaries of Einstein's most famous work and his other contributions to science, as well as his involvement in world politics and …

Books & Arts

Bring on the birds

Books & Arts

Brain food

Books & Arts

Sailors and spin

Books & Arts

Me, myself and meme

Books & Arts

Get back to your roots

Books & Arts

Take the infinity trip

Books & Arts

Madness: A brief history by Roy Porter

Books & Arts

Clockwork curio

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE FIRST Windows cellphones are now going on sale, thanks to a deal struck between Microsoft and cellphone operator Orange in 21 countries. The new Smartphone works like an ordinary mobile phone but also uses Windows to surf the Web and download music, pictures, movies and games. Orange's executive vice-president Richard Brennan claims that the …

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