Issue 2096 | Magazine cover date: 23 August 1997

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23 August 1997

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Features

A job of magnified importance

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Cash for crisis

Opinion

Editorial : Summertime and the living is queasy

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A job of magnified importance

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The Fabricators

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Things can only get thinner

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Truly, madly, randomly

Features

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Cash for crisis

The government has agreed to give the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) an extra £2.5 million to stave off a crippling financial crisis. Four months ago, SEPA was forced to make drastic cuts in monitoring pollution around factories in order to meet an unexpected £3 million VAT bill ( This Week, 26 April, p 5 …

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Child's dose

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All-seeing eye

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Donors' dread

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Strawberries drive a hard bargain

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Monkeying around

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Enigmatic element

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Trouble spots

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Tiny tubes

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Sweet forgetfulness

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Start planning

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Down on the fractal farm

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Terminal hangover

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Dearth of an expert witness

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India crumbles into dust

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Sellafield maybe, but not in my back room

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Light on the Sun

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Hard to swallow

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Chickening out

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Eat me, eat me

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Another heroic failure

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Cool diodes

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Dish of the day

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Standard deviation

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Flying a kite

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Back to the drawing board

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One step ahead

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Pink for danger

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Oiling the wheels

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Out of the woods

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Watch out, there's more spam about

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Forest of clones

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Store in a cool, dry place . . .

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No turning back?

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Switching on light's potential

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Critical mass

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Engines of change

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Nuclear shutdown

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Fishy tale

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Tough turf

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Phew, what a sickwave

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Drilling for history

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Opinion

Editorial : Summertime and the living is queasy

WE can but hope that dire predictions of a sudden surge in cases of food poisoning in Britain over the next few weeks prove exaggerated ( see p 4 ). The warm summer and the unhygienic conditions on factory farms will be blamed if the outbreak materialises. Whether it does or not, there is little …

Opinion

Editorial : Poor old Brock – Farmers' misconceptions may threaten the badger's fragile recovery

Opinion

Features

A job of magnified importance

THE MICROSCOPE, in one form or another, must be the most widely used of all scientific instruments. Every laboratory worth its salt will have at least one, for the day's work for a microscopist can range from testing or failure analysis in a materials research laboratory, to cytology, haematology or pathology in a hospital or …

Features

The Fabricators

Features

Growing in electric fields

Features

Things can only get thinner

Features

Truly, madly, randomly

Features

Antipodes : Once warriors, seldom scientists

Wellington THE lack of involvement of Maori people in science is causing concern in New Zealand. I attended a meeting in Wellington last week where this was very much an issue. The lamentably low numbers of Maoris with science qualifications and employed in science was well chronicled. What was disappointing was the dearth of ideas …

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Review : So how does it feel?

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Regulars

Feedback

BILL GATES is now officially the richest man in the Universe, so Feedback was especially interested to see a music industry paper reviewing a pop song called Calling Mr Gates. It was composed by a frustrated Windows 95 user and chronicles his failed attempts to get through to Bill by phone. The song is available …

Regulars

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This week's magazine

23 August 1997

On the cover

A job of magnified importance

The Fabricators

Growing in electric fields

Things can only get thinner

Truly, madly, randomly

Table of contents

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Cash for crisis

Child's dose

All-seeing eye

Strike-proof

Donors' dread

Strawberries drive a hard bargain

Monkeying around

Enigmatic element

Trouble spots

Tiny tubes

Sweet forgetfulness

Start planning

Down on the fractal farm

Terminal hangover

Dearth of an expert witness

India crumbles into dust

Sellafield maybe, but not in my back room

Light on the Sun

Hard to swallow

Chickening out

Eat me, eat me

Another heroic failure

Cool diodes

Dish of the day

Standard deviation

Flying a kite

Back to the drawing board

One step ahead

Pink for danger

Oiling the wheels

Out of the woods

Watch out, there's more spam about

Forest of clones

Store in a cool, dry place . . .

No turning back?

Switching on light's potential

Critical mass

Engines of change

Nuclear shutdown

Fishy tale

Tough turf

Phew, what a sickwave

Drilling for history

Opinion

Editorial : Summertime and the living is queasy

Editorial : Poor old Brock – Farmers' misconceptions may threaten the badger's fragile recovery

Features

A job of magnified importance

The Fabricators

Growing in electric fields

Things can only get thinner

Truly, madly, randomly

More

Antipodes : Once warriors, seldom scientists

Thistle diary :

Review : Rat brains are our future

Review : Bring on the bugs

Review : Buzzsaw zipwords

Review : War on drugs

Best sellers : from Oxford

Review : Collected works

Forum : Something out of nothing

Forum : Reaching for the Moon

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