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14 June 2003

Issue 2399

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Watching him watching you

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When jeep meets jump-jet

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Evolution Five big questions

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News

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Herb extracts wrap up lethal food bugs

BASIL, one of the mainstays of Italian cuisine, might one day become a weapon in the battle against dangerous food bugs such as E. coli and listeria. A new plastic food wrapper for meat and cheese which slowly oozes anti-microbial chemicals extracted from the herb has been shown to increase the food's shelf life, and …

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Sonic steering

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Weedy camouflage

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Hairless and loving it

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Nose in a million

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Smog and snow

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Step on the gas to grow a better berry

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A telltale puff of radioactive gas may give the game away

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Invasion of the tetrapods

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Brotherly blood shrinks tumours

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Technology

Black hole for mobile spam

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Technology

Farewell, floppy notes

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Technology

Slim down your wallet

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Is this evidence for memory of water?

News

Would you trust a phone to spend your money?

News

How to make old cells as good as new

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Amazing claims for hand-held scanner

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Rival males are the ultimate turn-on

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Hope for those who don't sleep easy

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Challenger Deep's dramatic tale

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Smart seat can tell whether you're shifty or snoozing

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Missile shield faces deadline threat

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Monkeypox is latest disease to reach America

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Europe faces chemical chaos

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Even 'safe' mercury levels harm brain

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Shops in Japan are selling mercury-riddled dolphin flesh as whalemeat

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Pesticide industry won't pay its dues

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Only 'drastic measures' can save North Sea cod

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Park rangers on trail of GPS geeks

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Technology

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Physicists confirm recipe for very hot big bang soup

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Radio waves could zap stormy space weather

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It's the turn of the carbon screw

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Where, when and how?

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Gigantic meteor claim sparks scepticism

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Dispatches

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Soundbites

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The dawn of Homo sapiens

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Opinion

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The word the witch of agnesi

TO WHILE away the last few days waiting for the new Harry Potter book, try your hand at this. The bell-shaped curve above is obtained by solving the equation y(a 2 + x 2 ) = a 3 . It is applied by physicists today to describe the distribution of the energy from stars at …

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Humans

Westminster diary

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Games and theories

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Medicines without barriers

Opinion

End this phoney war

Opinion

Our ancestors the hippo eaters

Opinion

Features

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Watching him watching you

PICTURE this. You work in the second tallest skyscraper in Seattle. Your partner recently bought a load of chemical fertiliser for your rose garden. A friend of yours, with whom you're always talking on the phone, is writing a paper on Middle Eastern politics and has spent time on a website that is sometimes visited …

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When jeep meets jump-jet

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Evolution Five big questions

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Bestsellers - Portland, Oregon

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, Viking/Penguin Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation by Olivia Judson, Henry Holt The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston, Random House No Bone Unturned by Jeff Benedict, HarperCollins Underworld by Graham Hancock, Crown/Random House The Octopus and the Orang-utan by Eugene Linden, Dutton Faster Than the Speed …

Books & Arts

Yes, I remember it well

Books & Arts

Just like that

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Back a bit, back a bit

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A la chart

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Ghosts of the Abyss by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall

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Constructive criticism

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Feedback

RECREATING a foreign environment in your garden can have some unexpected consequences, as Arizona science writer Star Lawrence discovered. Not fond of the desert landscape in Chandler, a suburb about 25 kilometres south-east of Phoenix, she planted a lush array of greenery and dug small ponds outside her house, including one with a pump to …

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