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24 July 1999

Issue 2196

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Dig, you might find a career

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A very local hero

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The body snatchers

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Tongue tied

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Watch out, pollen about

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Is nothing sacred?

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News

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Phew, we're safe!

A faint streak of light recorded in 1955 has calmed fears about a catastrophic asteroid impact. After learning of the possible threat to Earth posed by asteroid 1999 AN10 (This Week, 5 June, p 5) , two German amateur astronomers, Arno Gnädig and Andreas Doppler, calculated where it should have been during the 1955 Palomar …

News

I may be adopted, but I look just like my dad

News

Bruised brains

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Reject-me-not

News

Quit fix

News

Ear defender

News

Blind passion

News

Genes at work

News

Sun trap

News

Own goal

News

Japan in hot water

News

Quicksilver quandary

News

Why a two-faced virus can prolong life

News

Technology

Enter the e-doc

News

Where am I?

News

Precision killing

News

Some like it hot

News

Breaking the mould

News

Call free on your radio

News

A solid impression

News

You know where you are with NASA

News

The prying game

News

Pressure on US grows as Japan gives people choice

News

Bubble trouble

News

Don't ruin the view

News

Stressed out

News

Downsizing the future

News

Cinematic sound

News

Bug trap

News

Bright winters

News

Bursting American lakes chilled Europe

News

Out of sight

News

Technology

Kinder to teeth

News

Technology

Light relief

News

Technology

Worthless patents

News

The art of noise

News

Power on tap

News

It's heard but can't be seen

News

Getting a grip

News

From zero to forty without moving a muscle

News

Soft words, big stick

News

Bargain lifesaver

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Manners, please!

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Trapped nerves

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Pandemic panic

News

Trampled underfoot

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Beef ban latest

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Clockwork creatures

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Opinion

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Westminster diary

FRENCH researchers say that some bacterial spores used as pesticide sprays on organic crops cause lung damage and death in laboratory mice (This Week, 29 May, p 4) . Françoise Ramisse and her colleagues at le Bouchet army research laboratories near Paris found that when healthy mice inhaled commercial strains of Bacillus thuringiensis they suffered …

Opinion

Making an exhibition of sex

Opinion

Once more with meaning

Opinion

Ready for action

Opinion

No cake for you

Opinion

Sky Wars: The Real Menace

Opinion

Features

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Dig, you might find a career

Never become an archaeologist if you want a quiet, comfortable and wealthy life. It is a profession for the dedicated and persistent, the intellectually curious and the physically fit. Archaeological studies vary so much in the location and period in history they cover that no one can ever be an expert in all of it. …

Features

A very local hero

Features

The body snatchers

Features

Tongue tied

Features

Watch out, pollen about

Features

Is nothing sacred?

Features

More

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Eurogoddess

Was ancient Europe a single culture united by goddess worship? Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, who died in 1994, certainly thought so, and stirred up ample controversy during her life because of it. In Gimbutas's The Living Goddesses, the cult had its local variants, but a common thread bound all those owl, snake and hedgehog goddesses together: …

Books & Arts

Blow me down

Books & Arts

It's a gas

Books & Arts

Lines in the dirt

Books & Arts

Bestsellers from Cambridge

Books & Arts

They connect

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

HOW did a new type of meat-eating dinosaur, whose fossilised remains were recently discovered in Montana, come to be named Urinator montanus? Palaeontologists traditionally name their discoveries after some special feature of the extinct beast or some notable aspect of the discovery. In this case, the notable aspect of the discovery made by Jason Poole …

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