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22 November 1997

Issue 2109

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Faith, hope and statistics

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Life

Sex is murder

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Going Underground

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Burn me

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Chill out

THE North Atlantic suffers a sudden cold spell roughly every 1500 years, researchers reported in last week's Science (vol 278, p 1257). A team led by Gerard Bond of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, studied the remnants of marine microbes and sediment in deep-sea cores from the North Atlantic. They found evidence …

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Mummy's ruin

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Making a man

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Dusty space

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Steamy story races to a happy ending

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Boys will be boys

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One is all it takes

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Web linked

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Up for the count

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Dammed big

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What a stinker

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Even floors have feelings

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Speed freaks are out in the cold

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Seek and destroy

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Sleeping Beauty awakes

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Nose job

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Fortune favours the franker flyer

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Meteorite fever

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Blowing hot and cold

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Muscle mania

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Academy can keep its doors shut

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Wake-up call

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Write note

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Water works

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Small talk

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Killer turns hero

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Why HIV's down but not quite out

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Cookies in court

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A question of timing

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Helmsman's elbow

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Sensitive to a fault

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Bomber on trial

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Arrested development

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Storm in a test tube

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The dirt on clean fuel

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Fishy fingers

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Dogs' days numbered

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Scream gene

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In the dark

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Death defying

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Hot tip for wrapping up genes

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Volts for jolts

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Computer patter

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Bombs away

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Cold calling

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Biotech boom

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Opinion

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Mind

Editorial : Don't panic, just pay - How much are a couple of IQ points worth to you?

LEAD, PCBs, PM10s, sulphur dioxide, radon, ground-level ozone. . . As if the list isn't long enough already, a Danish study has discovered something else for us to worry about—eating fish and seafood (see p 4) . The problem arises from the mercury that tends to accumulate in species near the tops of aquatic and …

Opinion

Features

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Faith, hope and statistics

THE departed spirit of an 18th-century English cleric is suddenly starting to turn up in a whole range of odd places. Fortunately, he is a friendly ghost. Take Microsoft's business software, Office 97—if you're having a spot of trouble, he appears with just the right tips to help you out. Officially, Microsoft's helper is called …

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Life

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Going Underground

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Burn me

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Antipodes : New Zealand's population dilemma

Wellington IN BOTH Australia and New Zealand, how many people each country can hold has become a contentious political issue. The debate has been complicated by populist agitation about Asian immigration. So I was pleased to see that two conferences held in Wellington last week put the population debate on a more rational footing. `The …

Forum

Forum : Roll over, Malthus . . .

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Forum : About as clear as mud

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Thistle diary :

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Christmas books : There can only be one...

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Feedback

CALLING ALL cosmologists. Your mental dexterity with antimatter, black holes and the like could come in handy at the negotiations for an agreement on saving the world's climate, set to climax next month in Kyoto, Japan. Negotiators back from the latest talks in Bonn report a litany of terms that only the Stephen Hawkings of …

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