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18 July 1998

Issue 2143

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Flatlands

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Brainless wonders

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No toil, no trouble

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Let them eat dirt

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News

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No ban for banks

The US government has relaxed its strict ban on the export of sophisticated electronic encryption technology—but only banks will benefit. Last week, commerce secretary William Daley announced that software companies specialising in cryptography can export their products to financial institutions in 45 nations without having to hand a copy of the keys needed to break …

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Casting the net

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Seals find fish with the help of whisker vision

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Extinguished

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Doped skin

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Bug in shining armour

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Healthy starter

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Dead dangerous

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Tainted catch

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Jealous step-parents eject youngsters from the nest

News

An unfolding story

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Implant payout

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Greening the desert

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French TV reception under threat

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Electric kilo

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Strange bedfellows

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In the name of science

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Sorry, I'm upside down

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Gates in Japanese tie-up

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Barging in

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Frogs that fake it

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Test tube trees

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It's life, as far as we know it

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The demon drink

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Technology

Trading names

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Guiding lights

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The secret of keeping fruit fresh

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When being warm can make you dull

News

Technology

The power of the cross

News

Technology

Your bath's ready

News

Technology

An inventive lot

News

One bad applet

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They've got it licked

News

The dancing droid

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The natural way to repair the skull

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Scrapie scheme

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Mixed messages

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Proceed with caution

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Time's up

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The fast way to grow your own ice kingdom

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Subzero tolerance

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Sex on the brain

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Beyond the grave

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Cyberjustice

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Cold reception for superconductivity claim

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Eaten alive

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Opinion

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The stuff of dreams

FOR years, British biomedical researchers have cast envious eyes at the US National Institutes of Health with their stupendous budgets and acres of labs. But Britain also has something to envy in the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest biomedical charity. With some £10 billion in investments, the Wellcome is twice the size of the famed …

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Flatlands

NO PLANET in the Solar System can match Mars for highs and lows. When the first space probe to map Mars, Mariner 9, arrived there in 1971, all it could see was a vast cloud of dust enveloping the planet. Suddenly, above the dust cloud, it spotted four small humps. These turned out to be …

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Brainless wonders

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No toil, no trouble

Features

Health

Let them eat dirt

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Conspiracies of silence

IT TOOK the needless deaths of numerous babies operated on at Bristol Royal Infirmary over a period of seven years before doctors elsewhere started asking awkward questions. Yet as far back as 1988, some people were dubbing the paediatric cardiac surgery unit "The killing fields". The death rate dwarfed that of other comparable units. But …

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South Island all it's cracked up to be

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Caught on canvas

Books & Arts

Modern times

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Brain box

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Digital magic

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Two for one

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Mastery over mind

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Secret weapon

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Absolutely fabulous

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Whoops

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Who's sperm is it anyway?

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Soul of the ocean

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Collected works

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from Oxford

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First things first . . .

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The coral clans

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Regulars

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Feedback

HOW MANY scientists does it take to write a research paper? D. Simpson threw down the gauntlet when he found a paper in the British Medical Journal crafted by no fewer than 410 authors (Feedback, 27 June). Thank you to all our readers who took up the challenge. Mike Collins and Martin Knight were first …

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