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13 June 1998

Issue 2138

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Robojeep

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Life is...

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All for one... ...one for all

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Altered state

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Critical mass

MORE evidence has emerged that at least one of three subatomic particles known as neutrinos has a mass, albeit tiny, physicists said last week. The team, led by Yoji Totsuka of Tokyo University, say data from the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan suggest neutrinos created in the atmosphere "oscillate" into another neutrino type. This can only …

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High summer peril

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Dementia clue

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How blood relatives communicate

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Radio days

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Seabed cleanup

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Fat of the land

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Battle of the browsers

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Painkiller doubles as brain saver

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Ugly rats forced to wear masks

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Care bonus

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Chill out

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You could eat your dinner off that . . .

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Breathe easy

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When a quick sex change pays

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Ice spy

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Technology

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Tiger, tiger

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Earth

Catalyst for warming

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Effluent on ice

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Technology

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Technology

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Catch computer crooks red-handed

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Take heart

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Making waves

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Technology

Harmonies from hardware

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Where are we, ALF?

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Brilliant result

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Pothole plugger

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Bladders to go

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Incredible shrinking solar panels

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Flying start

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Einstein in free fall

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Damaged minds

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Long shot

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Nuclear test veterans lose compensation claim

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Meltdown

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Altered minds

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Catching medicine's cheats and charlatans

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Martian cutbacks

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Big bird

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Caught on camera

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Bombs away

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Giving credit where it's due

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Cheap trick

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Technology

The smell of the Net

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Technology

Speedy realism

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Technology

A brush with genius

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An eye for colour

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BSE's hidden horror

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You, the jury . . .

THE biotechnology food wars have entered a new phase. Earlier this week, the US "life sciences" company Monsanto launched a million pound advertising campaign in Britain "presenting the benefits of food biotechnology" to a sceptical public. Within two days of its launch, Britain's most famous organic farmer, Prince Charles, hit back in The Daily Telegraph …

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Robojeep

RUGGED, light and virtually indestructible, the general purpose vehicle or Jeep is a legend in US military history. Since the first model was built in 1940, the basic green machine has been ever present in the nation's armoury. But war has changed, and the Jeep is about to undergo a transformation to bring it up …

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Life is...

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All for one... ...one for all

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Altered state

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In the right order

Mood Genes by Samuel Barondes, W. H. Freeman, $24.95, ISBN 0716729431 MOST people would accept the variation in human behaviour is a subtle amalgam of life experience and some kind of genetic susceptibility. But it may take a far greater leap of the imagination for them to grasp the idea that disorders such as Alzheimer's …

Books & Arts

The species enigma

Inside Science

Buyer beware

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Wet hands given a towelling

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Ask Uncle Albert

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We were right

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Star quality

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Take me to the limits

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Fair shares

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At the chalk face

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Bugspotting

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Good idea

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Virtual family

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Catch a wave

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Collected works

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from Washington

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Into the dark

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Feedback

IF YOU drive a car, you will be familiar with that feeling of guilt when you hit and injure or kill an innocent bird. Obviously, the birds don't like it much either—and now, it seems, they are fighting back. The district forester at Atherton Tableland, Cairns, Australia, was recently on his way home when he …

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