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20 September 2003

Issue 2413

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Betrayal of innocence

Features
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Last of the lions

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Power from the waves

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No going back

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Table of contents

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A generator you can take on the subway

NEXT time the lights go out in New York or London, a new breed of power generator could come to the rescue – at a price. These portable fuel cells run silently and produce only water vapour as exhaust. But the first ones to hit the market generate power for only a couple of hours …

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Oil plus ice spells big trouble at sea

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Technology

Screen clutter clear-up

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Technology

Shallow fix for fish infection

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Technology

An end to pink washes

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Primates reveal a sense of fair play

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Sexual organs with real staying power

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Scratching MP3s changes DJs' tune

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Pilots' hours storm

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Dispatches

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Soundbites

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Row erupts over asteroid press scare

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Worth tracking the small ones

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Space

Galileo plunges to its death

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June's child will be blessed with many grandchildren

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Twice as many Earths out there?

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Heart-stopping drugs keep tickers safe during surgery

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Space

Tribute to an explorer

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Plasma blobs hint at new form of life

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Impostor cells are wrecking research

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A high price to pay for caviar

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Hollywood insiders blamed for net piracy

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Killer pinned down

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Limits to life

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Artificial sperm

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Brewing the blues

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Top tip for waiters: let customers split the bill

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It's so cool

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Earliest plants found

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Iron nanodust zaps tricky pollutants

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Opinion

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Lessons unlearned

THE name of William Nelson-Rees is enough to strike terror into the hearts of many older US biomedical researchers. Throughout the 1970s, he pursued a curious but highly effective crusade. Cell cultures, it had just been found, could be ruined by contamination with fast-growing cells. Nelson-Rees made it his mission to unearth cell lines that …

Opinion

Don't worry, grandpa, you're in the clear

Opinion

Humans

Westminster diary

Opinion

The art of knowledge

Opinion

You can't control the climate

Opinion

Features

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Betrayal of innocence

IT WAS a bizarre child abuse case. Janet stood accused of repeatedly half-suffocating her baby, Lucy (not their real names), then rushing her to hospital claiming the infant had suffered an epileptic fit. The court heard that Janet did it because she revelled in all the attention the doctors were lavishing on her and Lucy. …

Features

Last of the lions

Features

Power from the waves

Features

No going back

Features

More

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Passionate moderation

Defending Science – Within Reason by Susan Haack, Prometheus, $28, ISBN 1591021170 Reviewed by Robert Crease IF you regard science as not merely one cultural phenomenon among many others but as a manifestation of human enquiry at its best and an invaluable tool for navigating a complex and perilous world, then for years you have …

Books & Arts

The Mona Lisa of science

Books & Arts

Taste a triangle

Books & Arts

Eat the ancestors

Books & Arts

Starving rockets

Books & Arts

Little dynamo heads off for biotech big time

Careers

Fabulous florissant

Books & Arts

Anarchists rule

Books & Arts

Flying flappers

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE whole world is watching the progress of London's pioneering congestion charging scheme, which relies on video cameras and computers to recognise car number plates. We recently asked the organisers, Transport for London, a simple question: how do drivers change their payment details on the TfL computer? TfL encourages electronic communication, so we sent a …

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