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2 October 2004

Issue 2467

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Face values

Features
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Unusual suspects

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Rebuilding Rome

Features
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Perils of perfection

Features
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Happy, sad, angry, disgusted

Features
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Facing up to the future

Features
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A world of possibilities

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Which way is up?

Features
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The lost children

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Windows upgrade blocks PC add-ons

THE latest upgrade to Microsoft's Windows XP operating system deliberately prevents a number of PC add-ons from working, New Scientist has learned. The upgrade, a massive 80-megabyte package called Service Pack 2 (SP2), was already known to cause some equipment to fail, and users had been led to believe that this was because of the …

News

Technology

Cutting edge

News

Technology

No more chips off the old block

News

Technology

Adjust your speed now

News

Ivory smugglers could be undone by dung

News

Ancient virus at heart of MS

News

Storms at sea set the Earth humming

News

Technology

Robots boost the surgeon's art

News

Technology

Automatic address book

News

Technology

The pen that takes notes for you

News

Technology

Pictures worth 1000 lies

News

Study delivers a low blow to physiotherapy

News

Heaving star a relief for theorists

News

Suckosaurus

News

Males get the best milk

News

DNA barcoding spots new species

News

How long can we keep fishing to feed fish?

News

It won't take much to save swordfish

News

No cheating in the blood test

News

How fish keep one step ahead of ice

News

Bird flu goes human-to-human

News

Cell therapy helps pig hearts keep to the beat

News

Life

Stem cells transformed into eye's light-sensors

News

Soundbites

News

Seismic surveys blamed for giant squid deaths

News

Photosynthesis got a really early start

News

60 Seconds

News

Melting ice, global warning

News

Tickets to space

News

She's gonna blow

News

Lawsuits over reef damage

News

ISS oxygen crisis

News

Whose science?

News

DNA tests faked

News

No need for mass graves

News

Opinion

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Unfriendly fire

PRESIDENT BUSH has made much of his resolution to defend the American people against terrorists and rogue states. This is laudable. But take a close look at a major part of his strategy – national missile defence – and you may wonder if he is going about it the right way. NMD is a ground-based …

Opinion

A night to remember

Opinion

Editorial: The clock is ticking

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Features

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Face values

WE shouldn't judge a book by its cover, we are told. Yet we judge people by their appearance all the time, often making decisions about them even before we speak to them. Is this sensible? Obviously someone's face can tell us his or her sex and rough age, but can it tell us about mood, …

Features

Unusual suspects

Features

Rebuilding Rome

Features

Perils of perfection

Features

Happy, sad, angry, disgusted

Features

Facing up to the future

Features

A world of possibilities

Features

Which way is up?

Features

The lost children

Features

More

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It's a woman's world

"IF WE want to recruit and retain the best women, we won't succeed if we tolerate a 'golf club culture' which can implicitly, if not explicitly, exclude women." These words come not from a campaigning woman but from John Browne, chief executive of oil giant BP. Why is he banging the drum for women? Simple: …

Careers

Regulars

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Feedback

WHO needs Google when the world has New Scientist readers to dig out information? The Cutting Edge section recently reported a new CD player for blind people that remembers where it was when it is switched off (21 August, p 22) . This prompted a deluge of letters suggesting the manufacturer Roberts Radio and the …

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