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11 August 2001

Issue 2303

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Rainbow's bend

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US set to ban therapeutic cloning

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Rainbow's bend

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The logger of the lake

Features

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Dead man walking

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Look who's talking

Features

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Infinite sensation

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US set to ban therapeutic cloning

PATIENTS' groups and scientists are gearing up for a fight in the wake of a US House of Representatives vote for a ban on all human cloning, including therapeutic cloning and cloning for research purposes. The bill, introduced by Republican Dave Weldon from Florida and passed by 265 votes to 162, would make any form …

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Technology

Quantum gate plugs data leaks

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Technology

Swarming planes

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Technology

Bots knock the socks off city slickers

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Give ciggies the push—and doughnuts too

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In-flight snacks

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One at a time

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Expecting the worst

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All shook up

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Jurassic nose job

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Technology

Sounding boards

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Technology

Quick flicks

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Technology

Read all about it

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Seeds in space

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Phantom truckers

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Cooled customers

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Technology

Loyal luggage

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Waste not . . .

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Clean me a river

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You twist my protein, I'll twist yours

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Chef's special

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Honeypot for hackers

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Unmistakable

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Digging the dirt

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Technology

Shock tactics

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Caught yellow-handed

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Going round the bend

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Technology

Killing me softly

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Three is the magnetic number

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Hit the spit

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Bishops rubbish rubbers

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Red devil returns

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No baby booms

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Missing in action

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Born under a thin star

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Race to the death

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Opinion

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Westminster diary

THE Ministry of Defence stands accused of breaking its promise to screen soldiers exposed to depleted uranium in the Gulf and Kosovo (51��, 26 May, p 3) . I asked Lewis Moonie, the veterans' minister, whether the accusation was fair. Moonie admitted that in some part it was. But the MoD wants its programme …

Opinion

If only we'd listen . . .

Opinion

Against the odds

Opinion

The price of gold

Opinion

Features

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Rainbow's bend

When a beam of light in air hits another transparent material, such as a slab of glass or a pool of water, it changes direction. That's refraction, the phenomenon at the heart of most optical devices, including the human eye, and which explains why a toothbrush standing in a glass of water looks broken. The …

Features

The logger of the lake

Features

Dead man walking

Features

Look who's talking

Features

Infinite sensation

Features

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Friezing time

Rock of Ages, Sands of Time, paintings by Barbara Page, text by Warren Allmon, University of Chicago Press, $45, ISBN 0226644790 TO SEE fossils grouped as they might be found in the ground normally involves tramping between different collections, or even different museums. Collections are separated into groups—vertebrate, invertebrate and so on. It's logical, but …

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True blue bloods

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Flipper's friend

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What are we like

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Feedback

NOSE PICKING is a form of human behaviour that has received far too little scientific attention, but at last that neglect is being redressed. In the June issue of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari report on a study of nose picking in a sample of 200 adolescents from four urban …

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