Issue 2039 | Magazine cover date: 20 July 1996

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20 July 1996

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Features

Here comes the big one – Seismic waves that resound round the globe could be the key

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If you can't stand the heat, go shopping

Opinion

Editorial : A glimmer of hope - The annual international conference on AIDS that ended in Vancouver last week turned out to be unlike any of its ten predecessors. Of course, scientists, doctors, sociologists, politicians and public health officials turned

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Here comes the big one – Seismic waves that resound round the globe could be the key

Features

The plague that never was

Features

Return to paradise – If the people flee, what will happen to the seemingly indestructible

Features

Dressed to kill - Tomorrow's combat troops will wear clothing as sophisticated as the weapons they carry, says Justin Mullins

Features

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If you can't stand the heat, go shopping

Washington DC WHEN a heatwave strikes, many US cities distribute electric fans to their vulnerable elderly citizens. But a new study has found that air conditioning is the only effective protection against dying of heat stroke. It would be better to ferry overheated people to air-conditioned shopping malls, the researchers conclude. Last June, the US …

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Colonial legacy unlocks Arctic secrets

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Asia's growth spurt begins at the bench

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After 150 years, the osprey is back

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Burning issue

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Buses go bump

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Magnetic moon

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Smoke signals

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Wrecked view

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Instant dealing

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All the world shall be taxed - As manufacturing industries decline and the information economy takes over, governments are having to think up new ways to take their cut

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Casualties of quest for Olympic gold

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Orphan elephants go on the rampage

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Cancer charity faces fresh allegations

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Doctors divided over cold turkey made easy

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AIDS time bomb still ticking in former Soviet states

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Nuclear watchdog may lose its teeth

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Mothers grieve for lost freedom

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Japan slow to act on dioxin danger

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Firefighters abandon halons for water…

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…as farmers find a fumigant that doesn't eat ozone

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Technology

Technology : DAISY nets more bugs on the wing

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Technology : Ironing out industry's problems with waste

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Science : Sun faces an egg-shaped future

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Technology : Through a micromirror cheaply . . .

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Technology : Putting the brakes on big earthquakes

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Science : Are nitrates good for us?

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Science : Quantum secrets of Maya blue

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Science : Child's lethal gene fault heals itself

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Netropolitan :

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Technology : Where manatees may safely swim

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Technology : Attack on video pirates backfires

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Netropolitan :

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Science : Earth's heart is in a spin

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Science : `Glass water' helps plant beat drought

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Science : Exposing the deadly touch of measles virus

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Greenham fallout penetrates corridors of power

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Opinion

Editorial : A glimmer of hope - The annual international conference on AIDS that ended in Vancouver last week turned out to be unlike any of its ten predecessors. Of course, scientists, doctors, sociologists, politicians and public health officials turned

The annual international conference on AIDS that ended in Vancouver last week turned out to be unlike any of its ten predecessors. Of course, scientists, doctors, sociologists, politicians and public health officials turned up in their usual tens of thousands and AIDS activists staged their predictable protests. This year they dumped a red dye looking …

Opinion

Features

Here comes the big one – Seismic waves that resound round the globe could be the key

FOR YEARS, the US Geological Survey had a crisp, easy answer to a perennial question about earthquakes. Whenever one quake followed on the heels of another, reporters would invariably ask whether they were connected. "Absolutely not," would come the brisk reply. "Earthquakes happen randomly." But now, seismologists are not so sure. On 28 June 1992, …

Features

The plague that never was

Features

Return to paradise – If the people flee, what will happen to the seemingly indestructible

Features

Dressed to kill - Tomorrow's combat troops will wear clothing as sophisticated as the weapons they carry, says Justin Mullins

Features

Forum : Ain't it all a bleedin' shame? - Fred Pearce finds it's the poor wot gets the blame again

IT WAS one of the biggest audiences at the UN's June Cities Summit in Istanbul. Hundreds packed in to hear Laurie Garrett, author of the recent bestseller The Coming Plague, tell how Third World megacities were the forcing houses for new global pandemics of malaria, flu, dengue fever and much more. Diseases such as yellow …

Forum

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Antipodes : Becoming clever in the country - Ian Lowe hears about about high tech farming

Forum

Review : Careless talk costs

Books & Arts

Thistle diary : Hot wastes and flat batteries - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Forum : Let's talk to the animals - Philip Johansson argues that there is more to ecology than just statistics

Forum

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Books & Arts

Review : Rock and roll

Books & Arts

Review : Bright young things

Books & Arts

Review : Shift those yen

Books & Arts

Review : Locals know how

Books & Arts

Review : Seconds out

Books & Arts

Review : Needham's life . . .

Books & Arts

Review : . . . And legacy

Books & Arts

Review : Exploding cuttlefish

Books & Arts

Review : Sea change

Books & Arts

Review : Agent provocateur

Books & Arts

Review : No more moody blues

Books & Arts

Regulars

The Last Word

Primary school Q: At school I was shown how to mix red, blue and green light on a white surface to produce the other colours of the rainbow. However, we were then told that light is an electromagnetic wave and different frequencies correspond to different colours and that the pure colour yellow (as seen in …

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This week's magazine

20 July 1996

On the cover

Here comes the big one – Seismic waves that resound round the globe could be the key

The plague that never was

Return to paradise – If the people flee, what will happen to the seemingly indestructible

Dressed to kill - Tomorrow's combat troops will wear clothing as sophisticated as the weapons they carry, says Justin Mullins

Table of contents

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If you can't stand the heat, go shopping

Colonial legacy unlocks Arctic secrets

Asia's growth spurt begins at the bench

After 150 years, the osprey is back

Burning issue

Buses go bump

Magnetic moon

Smoke signals

Wrecked view

Instant dealing

All the world shall be taxed - As manufacturing industries decline and the information economy takes over, governments are having to think up new ways to take their cut

Casualties of quest for Olympic gold

Orphan elephants go on the rampage

Cancer charity faces fresh allegations

Doctors divided over cold turkey made easy

AIDS time bomb still ticking in former Soviet states

Nuclear watchdog may lose its teeth

Mothers grieve for lost freedom

Japan slow to act on dioxin danger

Firefighters abandon halons for water…

…as farmers find a fumigant that doesn't eat ozone

Technology

Technology : DAISY nets more bugs on the wing

Technology

Technology : Ironing out industry's problems with waste

Science : Sun faces an egg-shaped future

Technology

Technology : Through a micromirror cheaply . . .

Technology

Technology : Putting the brakes on big earthquakes

Science : Are nitrates good for us?

Science : Quantum secrets of Maya blue

Science : Child's lethal gene fault heals itself

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Where manatees may safely swim

Technology

Technology : Attack on video pirates backfires

Technology

Netropolitan :

Science : Earth's heart is in a spin

Science : `Glass water' helps plant beat drought

Science : Exposing the deadly touch of measles virus

Greenham fallout penetrates corridors of power

Opinion

Editorial : A glimmer of hope - The annual international conference on AIDS that ended in Vancouver last week turned out to be unlike any of its ten predecessors. Of course, scientists, doctors, sociologists, politicians and public health officials turned

Features

Here comes the big one – Seismic waves that resound round the globe could be the key

The plague that never was

Return to paradise – If the people flee, what will happen to the seemingly indestructible

Dressed to kill - Tomorrow's combat troops will wear clothing as sophisticated as the weapons they carry, says Justin Mullins

More

Forum : Ain't it all a bleedin' shame? - Fred Pearce finds it's the poor wot gets the blame again

Review : Collected works

Antipodes : Becoming clever in the country - Ian Lowe hears about about high tech farming

Review : Careless talk costs

Thistle diary : Hot wastes and flat batteries - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum : Let's talk to the animals - Philip Johansson argues that there is more to ecology than just statistics

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Review : Rock and roll

Review : Bright young things

Review : Shift those yen

Review : Locals know how

Review : Seconds out

Review : Needham's life . . .

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