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14 April 2001

Issue 2286

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The ant and the mandarin

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The long goodbye

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Still Standing

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Perfect focus

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Talking heads

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Cycling across Mars

A robot made out of old bicycle parts is to be tested in the Canadian Arctic in July as a prototype for a new breed of Sun-worshipping Mars rovers. If it is successful, Hyperion, a 3-metre-tall solar cell on wheels developed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, will attempt to stay active on Mars 24 …

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Pocket website

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Life in a reserve no picnic for pandas

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Not so diverse

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Smooth running

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Don't quake the baby

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It's not just fashion

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Facial attraction

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Humans

Hand-shaking chimps get to grips with culture

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Checking your reflection

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Power dressing

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Technology

Trainers with attitude

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Technology

Bad news for treeshrews

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Humans

Open wide

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Telltale traces

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Take your partners for the Planet Waltz

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Independence day

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Happy ending for stale beer and heavy metal

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An all-round better camera

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Print a pizza

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Technology

What a bloody mesh

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Grand design

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Farming the sea breeze

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All ears on Mars

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Will Viagra save the seals?

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Heavenly twins

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Humans

Comfort feeding

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Humans

Local heroes

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The heart rules the head

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Island hopping

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Secret of a long life

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The Moon's so bright, I gotta wear shades

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Monster in the making

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Bravecat

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Pop goes the neutrino

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Choppy seas may take the edge off global warming

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Is schizophrenia caused by an enemy within?

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Bill Gates relinquishes rights to your latest novel

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It started with a crash

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Attack of the munchies

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Special treatment

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Oh, go on then

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Leave those bones alone

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Privatising your proteins

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Goodnight Tokyo

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Opinion

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Westminster Diary

ALL CREDIT to any MP not afraid of being laughed at. Step forward Lembit Opik, Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomeryshire, whose famous grandfather Ernst pioneered the study of comets back in the 1930s. Opik secured an end-of-day adjournment debate on potentially hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs) in March 1999. Unlike many similar debates, it achieved a …

Opinion

In a different world

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Not speaking to you, so there

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Free for all

Opinion

Don't wait for measles to mutate

Opinion

Features

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The ant and the mandarin

In 1476, the farmers of Berne in Switzerland decided there was only one way to rid their fields of the cutworms attacking their crops. They took the pests to court. The worms were tried, found guilty and excommunicated by the archbishop. In China, farmers had a more practical approach to pest control. Rather than rely …

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The long goodbye

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Still Standing

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Perfect focus

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Talking heads

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Keeping in Touch

Access Denied in the Information Age edited by Stephen Lax, Palgrave/St Martins, $65, ISBN 0333920198 WHAT are the effects of the "communications revolution"—not just the notorious Internet, but pagers and mobiles and wiredness in all its forms? And how would we cope without wiredness? Imagine the global mobile phone network crashes. Would you rejoice at …

Books & Arts

THE Necessity of bears

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The past is a frozen country

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Back in the Old Days

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Tales of the Living Dead

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The Queen's Magical Doctor

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Bestsellers

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The Last Word

Soggy pud Question : The traditional way to cook a boiled pudding is to tie it in a cotton or linen cloth and immerse it in boiling water. If the water goes off the boil, water gets into the pudding and it goes soggy. What prevents the simmering water—undoubtedly a liquid— penetrating the cloth, when …

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