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Cinderella fruit: Wild delicacies become cash crops

From chocolate berries to monkey oranges and gingerbread plums, Africa is the home of thousands of tasty fruits whose potential is ripe for the plucking

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Earth

Tomorrow’s weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals

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Humans

Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn’t mean you’re smart

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Swine flu: Eight myths that could endanger your life

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Life

Where do ghosts come from?

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Swine flu myth: This is just mild flu. The death rates are even lower than for normal flu

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Swine flu myth: You’re safe as long as you’re healthy. Only sick, weak people get really ill

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Swine flu myth: The symptoms are like regular flu. You’ve got it if you’ve got a fever

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Swine flu myth: I’ll be OK if I just eat organic food, take vitamins, wear a mask, wash my hands a lot and drink plenty of fluids

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Swine flu myth: It’s OK now because we have a vaccine. In fact, we have several

Even in rich countries, it will be months before everyone who wants the vaccine can get it. Poor countries will get little if any vaccine

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Swine flu myth: This virus won’t get deadlier – that isn’t in a germ’s interests

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Swine flu myth: Once this pandemic is over we’ll be safe for another few decades

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Life

Real sea monsters: The hunt for predator X

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Health

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

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