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Britain dips a cautious toe in Arctic waters

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Money down the drains: Egypt has already spent more than 500 million pounds to keep sewage off the streets of Cairo. But that is not enough to do the job properly

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A sudden thaw in the Arctic

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Confused signals blur the future of television: Television manufacturers want to sell us more expensive sets to receive bigger and better pictures. The problem is that neither they nor the broadcasters can agree on a standard format for high-definition p

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Eastern Europe faces a Western epidemic: Along with rock music, blue jeans and popular elections, the Soviet Union faces a more malign Western influence, AIDS

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Physics

Time travels in diverse paces

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The dark side of the Earth: Lights from cities, flares from gas fields and farmers burning off scrub, even fleets of fishing boats hung with lamps to lure squid to the surface in the Sea of Japan illuminate the Earth at night

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As pure as the driven snow?

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Japan begins its television revolution in the streets

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Technology

American defence fears trigger television drama

Most people in the US buy electronics products from Japanese companies. American industry is determined to reverse the trend as high-definition television sets become available. Congress is also taking note

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New dimensions for oil and gas exploration

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Early warnings of stress: An array of proteins that cells make under duress may one day pinpoint pollution, find faults in bioreactors and reveal ways of making plants resistant to global warming

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Heat-shock proteins to the rescue: Proteins that cells makein response to high temperatures may help to keep other proteins in goodshape. They may form part of a large family of proteins that bind toproteins

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The incredible shrinking submarine

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