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5 July 2003

Issue 2402

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Sun, sea and Sinatra

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Natural born readers

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Endgame

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Red alert on the e-war front

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The shining

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Why male orb spiders sacrifice all for love

IT IS an unsavoury tale of sex, suicide, and self-sacrifice. For male orb-weaving spiders, the act of copulation leads to an immediate, certain death. To add to the indignity, their corpses then become entangled in the genitalia of their female partner. "Spiders are known for their bizarre mating, but even so this was surprising," says …

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Life

Embryonic hope

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How the web works wonders for ducks

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Of mice, men and HIV

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Difficult dads

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Just once for Celtic

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Eat like a Greek

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Verdant bats

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Brontosaurus's thunder stolen

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Tough case? Get a second opinion

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Secrecy shrouds nuclear leak

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Balloon goes up for just one molecule

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Solar sailing 'breaks the laws of physics'

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Technology

Anti-vomit idea gels

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Walls in the sky will keep hijacked planes at bay

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Technology

Keep your calls clean

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Technology

Digital film doubles view

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We hear that…

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Spores made to order

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Health

What happened when

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Ancient mariners point the way

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Health

Too soon to celebrate

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After a decade in the cold, SETI gets money from NASA

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Hunt for WMDs goes ballistic

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North America needs tougher BSE measures

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Does oil wealth help to conserve forests?

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Dispatches

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Soundbites

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Sheer brilliance or utter madness?

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

BIG DAMS are back in the news. Press cameras are infatuated with the Three Gorges monster in China and, as Fred Pearce laments, governments and the World Bank "are back in love with dams" (Â鶹´«Ã½, 22 March, p 29) . Such megaprojects spell disaster for people who lack clean water, Pearce contends. And the …

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High flyer

Opinion

Tiny terrors

Opinion

One size won't fit all

Opinion

Features

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Sun, sea and Sinatra

The Salton Sea is a 98-year-old toxic drainage sump in the middle of the California desert. Nobody planned it. The largest lake in American west formed suddenly after over-enthusiastic irrigation engineers triggered a disastrous accident. Their company went bust as a result. Today, the sea is topped up with the run-off from farms that feed …

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Natural born readers

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Endgame

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Red alert on the e-war front

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The shining

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Stalking the enemy

UNTIL recently, studying cancer was a frustrating line of work. Sure, researchers have learned a lot about how and why cancers form, but that has translated into very little improvement in hospital wards. "Patients keep dying at the same rate they did ten years ago," says Mariano Barbacid, director of the Spanish National Cancer Centre …

Careers

Old Father Time

Books & Arts

Truth and power

Books & Arts

Naturally miraculous

Books & Arts

Say arrrrrrrrgh

Books & Arts

The word sweet potato

Books & Arts

Snapshots from Armageddon

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

BORED by the prospect of naming faint stars that at best are pinpoints of light in the sky? Uninterested in tracts of arid real estate on the moon or Mars? Want to own a really big chunk of the universe? Now you can become the lord and master of your very own galaxy for just …

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