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11 October 2003

Issue 2416

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They all laughed...

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Five key questions about pleasure

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The pleasure seekers

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How the species became

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News

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North Korea's WAR of Words

NORTH Korea's latest pronouncement on its plans for nuclear weapons may not be all it seems. The state claims to have made a significant advance in its nuclear weapons programme, but this may be no more than tough talk. On 2 October, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued a curiously worded statement in …

News

Rabies in the UK?

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Meteor frenzy

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Ozone hopes holed

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Scared to share

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Technology

'Subversive' code could kill off software piracy

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Technology

Citizens strike back in intelligence war

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Technology

Cutting edge

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Technology

'Stiff' fluid could soon put the brakes on cars

News

Technology

Hemp can help car makers keep off the glass

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Technology

Phone sees double

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Technology

Packing a long-range punch

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Technology

Sunburn off the chart

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Technology

Save a packet with internet telephony

News

Technology

Rebel network

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Can't beat a good night's sleep

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Water came early to Earth

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Tuatara's relative lived in Argentina

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A perfect home for alien life

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Mapping genes' on-off switches

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Too many twins

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Fast way to find out what's in a tab of E

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Genes may be key to poor health in Aborigines

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US court case challenges climate change warning

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How laser light helps cells repair themselves

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Gardening goes all hot and steamy

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Battles spurred termite evolution

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Free markets hit growth

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Dam it

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60 Seconds

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Does the universe go on forever?

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Reflections from Titan point to seas of liquid hydrocarbons

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Hidden tree rings rescue priceless violin from allegations of fakery

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Glowing bacteria take on all comers

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Sonar kills whales

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Soundbites

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Health

Catholic church claims condoms do not stop HIV

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SARS lives on

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Opinion

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Poverty and corruption

THE railway boom after the American civil war ushered in a period when corruption was endemic. Railway companies bribed members of Congress to pass their bills. Towns bribed the companies to bring their tracks closer, and railway owners manipulated company shares to line their pockets. But as the economy boomed and government regulation tightened, the …

Opinion

Beating software pirates at their own game

Opinion

Reintroducing Ratty

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Adventures with rats

Opinion

Can gays become straight?

Opinion

Features

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They all laughed...

It seemed a straightforward bill to put before Parliament: a proposal to allow a new airline to raise funds from investors and operate international air routes to Egypt, China, India and other far-flung destinations. But MPs greeted the proposed Aerial Transit Company with gales of laughter. Mocking prints of its aeroplanes flying over Egypt's pyramids …

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Five key questions about pleasure

Features

The pleasure seekers

Features

How the species became

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Booker contender

A first (published, that is) novel from a small press made it onto the prestigious Man Booker Prize long list this year. The news reached the delighted publishers at the best possible time – during a meeting with their funders. Clare Morrall's Astonishing Splashes of Colour (Tindal Street Press, Birmingham, UK, £7.99) is now on …

Books & Arts

A scientist's scientist

Careers

Back to the Nile

Books & Arts

Franz, meet Albert…

Books & Arts

Mighty reads

Books & Arts

Cutting 'edge

Books & Arts

Beauty and the bench

Books & Arts

Pick of the bunch

Books & Arts

School of hard knocks

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

FEEDBACK'S favourite awards, the Ig Nobel prizes, were handed out on 2 October at Harvard University by three Nobel laureates and the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research. Here is a sample of the winners. The engineering prize went posthumously to Edward A. Murphy Jr and John Paul Stapp, and their surviving colleague George …

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