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3 February 2001

Issue 2276

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Safety in numbers may not be enough

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Drinkers' weakness

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Safety in numbers may not be enough

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Tread softly

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Space babies

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Drinkers' weakness

A PROTEIN that can stop you feeling hungry might also make you crave a stiff drink. Leptin is a protein that reduces appetite. 51¶¯Âþs know that when they give mice alcohol and then withhold the drink, injections of leptin make the mice drink more alcohol when given the chance. To find out if high levels …

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Bug breath

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Shrinking plants

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Unwell welders

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Thirsty work

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Tom dreams of Jerry

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Dark future

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The maestro knows who slipped up

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Technology

Signing off

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Bugs keep HIV at bay

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An ordinary miracle

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Under fire

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Shakin' all over

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Cloud catchers

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Health

It's your choice

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Vital signs

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Something in the way she phones…

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Bang, you're dead

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Clean getaway

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Robot nails online gossips

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Health

What's in a shot?

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Health

Looking for answers

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Phoney fuss

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Hold the corn

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Against the grain

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Why it's a pain to be smart

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Bad copies

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Technology

Penny for your thoughts

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Technology

Get your kit off

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Technology

Right track

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Health

Triple trouble

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Mir's bomb test mystery

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Lethal legacy

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Croaking hell

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Opinion

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Own goal

IT was one of those life-changing breakthroughs in comprehending how the Universe works. Like the moment the periodic table of the elements first made sense, or realising that tubes of tomato purée should be opened with the spike on the top of the cap, not with a front door key. For years, the great and …

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Westminster Diary

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Let's keep them happy

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Living dangerously

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Slick talk won't do

Opinion

The greener revolution

Opinion

Features

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Safety in numbers may not be enough

WALLACE CRAIG cupped the lifeless feathery bundle in his hands and sighed. Glancing at his watch he noted the time: 1.00 pm. The date was 1 September 1914, and Martha the passenger pigeon had just expired. With her went an entire species. It was the most unlikely extinction. In the early 18th century flocks of …

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Earth

Tread softly

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Space babies

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Mass medium

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Cosmology Revealed by Anthony Fairall

Cosmology Revealed by Anthony Fairall, Springer-Verlag, £19.50, ISBN 1852333227 IMAGINE the Universe as a spherical, hollow chocolate Easter egg, with the chocolate representing the opaque, early stages of the big bang. Then think of all the cars racing along Earth's roads. Eventually, of course, Earth's oil resources will run out: those cars will grind to …

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Count on this

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The way we were

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It's all in the language

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Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin

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Keep it in the nuclear family

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Last Word

Castles of sand Question : Why does damp sand hold the shape of my castle-shaped bucket on the beach whereas dry sand just crumbles away to nothing? Answer : To understand this problem you need to consider two ideas: friction and surface tension. If you put a small block of wood on a table you …

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