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4 July 1998

Issue 2141

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From Russia with love

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Stars in their eyes

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Echoes from the deep

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You are feeling very, very sleepy...

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News

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Unlucky for some

Players of the state lottery in Arizona who adopted 9 as their lucky number have been anything but lucky. The lottery's new "Pick 3" game used a computer program to draw three single digits at random. But due to some slipshod programming, the lottery ran for more than 30 draws before red-faced officials noticed that …

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Invest or die

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Spooks show their hand

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Born lucky

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HIV joins the superbug set

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How brilliant butterflies took off

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Double whammy

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Blind fate

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Eccentric planets

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Going to seed

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Stone me

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Technology

Pioneers of the net

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Get streetwise

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Debris smashes budget for space station

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Infested waters

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Catch the wave

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Not bitter

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Buzzer on

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Real cool

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Drugs hit the spot

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Changing tack

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Phone fights in prospect as digital TV hogs lines

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On the mend

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Grow-your-own

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The bubble bursts

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Tiny proteins may prevent Alzheimer's

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Security blanket

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Spoilt for choice

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Lone parents leave a dangerous legacy

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On thin ice

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Fossil creature rises from the dead

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It's life, but not as we know it

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A cut above

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Divide and rule

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Windows 98 is no recording star

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Technology

In a paddy over rice

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Technology

On reflection

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Technology

Transparent security

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Cool it, ref!

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What a waste

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Rumbles rumbled

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Still at large

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Wired for mayhem

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Cutting the bloodline

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Gloom descends as SOHO goes AWOL

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After Dolly, Mickey?

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Power-line ruling

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Freeze-dried mice

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Opinion

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Wanna buy some shares?

FALLING share prices. Allegations of insider dealing. Executives under attack for misleading investors. Yes, you guessed it, the biotechnology industry is in trouble again, only this time it is Britain not Wall Street that is bearing the brunt of the collapse in confidence (see p 20) . Is there anything governments can—or should—do to tame …

Opinion

Men in white

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From Russia with love

TAKE some Cold War research behind the Iron Curtain, add a love affair between an American physicist and a Russian and mix in a hi-tech start-up company with global ambitions. This is not, however, a recently discovered James Bond novel. This is the story of how ferroelectric memory arrived, this week, on the world scene. …

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Stars in their eyes

Features

Echoes from the deep

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You are feeling very, very sleepy...

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Solving a problem of the first water

THE Australian Government is finally getting serious about the issue of ballast water—six years after Â鶹´«Ã½ first drew attention to the problems caused by exotic organisms carried to antipodean waters in the bottom of bulk tankers. Recent studies on trans-Tasman ships (Antipodes, 20 September, 1997) and a paper at the Australian Academy of Science …

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Watching the clock

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Deep Sky Companion by Stephen O'Meara

Books & Arts

Wonder why

Books & Arts

Solar prodigy

Books & Arts

Pseuds out

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from Melbourne

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Collected works

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Corpse corpus

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God only knows

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Starvation diet

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Special brew

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Cover story

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Soviet past

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Sounds good

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Collected minds

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The cat's pyjamas

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Regulars

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Feedback

APPLE has canned the ill-starred Newton and the Mac's share of the computer market keeps falling. But Mac users remain a devoted bunch. One asked recently why we keep talking about the millennium bug as if it affects all computers. It doesn't, he says, because Macs will all automatically roll over from 1999 to 2000. …

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