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9 October 1999

Issue 2207

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Life

Don't blow it

BUNGED up with a cold? Use that tissue for wiping only. Every time you blow your nose, you're just prolonging the misery. Blowing your nose drives virus-laden mucus deep into the sinuses, a new study concludes. Sneezing and coughing don't do this, although of course they increase the chance of spreading your germs to friends, …

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Life

Humble eateries are good for your guts

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HIV's weak point

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Running on empty

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Hold your fire

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When every day is Friday the 13th

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Going, going . . .

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Attacking AIDS

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See no evil

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Bizarre origins of a star among noses

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Splendid isolation

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It's a turn-off

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Fellow travellers

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Anything goes

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Hard rain

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Life

Darwin tames a killer

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Health

IVF smokescreen

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Health

From a heart drug to a safe male Pill

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Sharpen up

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Sounds wild

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Breaking point

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Melody maker

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Long players

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Cancer stopper

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Mother's darlings

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It's good to stalk

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Golden probe

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Friend or foe?

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Technology

The Web: it's criminal

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Top brass

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Technology

Hang the DJ

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Technology

Health farm

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Technology

Talking pictures

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Here's health

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Cure that killed

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Naturally toxic

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Catalogue of errors

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Flu drug setback

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Crash landing

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Environment

Baboon virus

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Terminator terminated

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Bug custard

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Schoolkid blunder brought down Mars probe

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Asking for trouble

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Opinion

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The politics of water

PERVERSE though it may seem, the Australian government is under fire for failing to adopt the United Nations (UN) Convention to Combat Desertification. We are talking about the same Australia which has the lowest average rainfall and the most irregular precipitation of any inhabited continent, a country where drought is a word in regular use. …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

Your number's up

Opinion

Baron, it's for you

Opinion

Body politics

Opinion

Critical failure

Opinion

Features

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Weather warning

SOME guys have all the luck. Two years ago Dan Schrag was in Indonesia diving for fun when he made his discovery. "We had a glorious day," he says. "After a morning dive when we saw a huge school of barracuda, we stopped for lunch. I took a walk down the beach, behind the mangrove …

Features

Desert rave

Features

Back from the dead

Features

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Think on this

From "AI" to "X-Bar theory", by way of "Creativity", "Intelligence" and just a hint of "Magic", The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences will be invaluable for anyone wanting to know more about knowledge. Editors Robert Wilson and Frank Keil guide us through 471 authoritative, well-referenced articles by researchers whose names are synonymous with their …

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Feedback

FEEDBACK'S favourite awards, the Ig Nobel Prizes, were handed out on 30 September at Harvard University. The awards are given each year by the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research for achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced". HAVING spent long hours in deep and soggy contemplation of the problem, Feedback was delighted …

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