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22 May 2004

Issue 2448

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Into the dark state

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Fanning the flames

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Out of Asia

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News

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Shock tactic

WHAT is the best way to prevent deaths from gunshot wounds in young people? Show them the harsh reality of gun violence, says trauma chief Edward Cornwell at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Cornwell says that rap videos and other media glamorise gun violence, distorting the reality. While surgical advances have lowered the death …

News

Prize in sight

News

Taking E-votes to the masses

News

Insuring nanotech

News

Name those years

News

Safety at NASA

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

Laying siege to the grid

News

Technology

Has Moore's law had its chips?

News

Technology

Enter the nano etcher

News

Technology

24 downloads from tulsa

News

Technology

Light salve

News

Technology

Will video kill the gaming star?

News

Technology

NASA one step closer to shuttle repair in orbit

News

Technology

Secure signature means no one can steal your ID

News

Toxic chemicals from ice-breaking ships are polluting Antarctic seas

News

Plant tweaked to make omega-3s

News

Asteroid hues

News

Upping fight against blight

News

Red or white, grapes are black at heart

News

Crater finding linked to biggest ever wipe-out

News

Test may boost IVF success

News

Airborne particulates can mutate DNA

News

It's a small world inside your head

News

Soundbites

News

A father's shock legacy

News

Life began with a knack for copying

News

Climate change heralds thirsty times ahead for most

News

Isotopes etch prehistory of stone tools

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Cosmic dark age found in shadows

News

Bubbles trigger explosive death of white dwarfs

News

Peninsula peak pops its top

News

60 Seconds

News

Are nanobacteria alive or just strange crystals?

News

Four-winged birds were first to take to the air

News

Opinion

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Burning bridges

FOR foreign science students hoping to study or work in the US, these are frustrating times. Since 9/11, Washington has increased its scrutiny of all those applying for US visas, but especially of scientists and engineers. In principle there is nothing wrong with this policy. The government needs to take steps that will keep out …

Opinion

All the best ideas begin as heresy

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Technology

Up in the air!

Opinion

Bucking the big bang

Opinion

Features

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Into the dark state

VISITORS to Lene Hau's lab at Harvard University leave their shoes at the door. She doesn't want even a speck of dust trodden into the lab: it could fly up and get in the way of the laser beam she uses. Hau's apparatus is just about as delicate as it gets, the optics tables glittering …

Features

Fanning the flames

Features

Out of Asia

Features

More

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Animal wrongs

Empty Cages: Facing the challenge of animal rights by Tom Regan, Rowman & Littlefield, $21.95, ISBN 0742533522 Reviewed by David Thomas NO ONE reading this lucidly written book could be left in any doubt that man's inhumanity to man, terrible though it is, is dwarfed by our inhumanity to other animals. The question is whether …

Books & Arts

Comfrey and cowslips

Books & Arts

Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet by Andrew Nahum

Books & Arts

Bestsellers - Amsterdam

Books & Arts

Mind Time: The temporal factor in consciousness by Benjamin Libet

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

ONE of Feedback's American correspondents belongs to an association of translators. These are people who tend to be picky about words and to consult dictionaries frequently. A member recently complained on the group's email discussion list about an advertisement for a house which mentioned a dining room decorated with "wayne's coating". A check with Google …

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