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9 August 1997

Issue 2094

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91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Calculated gambling

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91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

The People's fossils

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And now the TV forecast ...

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Requiem for the soul

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Sly old devils

MATURE male crabs have found a cunning way to out-compete youngsters in mating, say researchers in Japan. Tsunenori Koga and Minoru Murai of Kyushu University in Fukuoka studied the behaviour of the Japanese sand-bubbler crab, Scopimera globosa, over three breeding seasons. The crabs build burrows in mud flats, but small young crabs spend most of …

News

Hotting up

News

In the distance

News

Deep roots

News

Bird's eye view

News

It's good to goo-goo

News

Clone alone

News

Crowded space

News

Beetles on the attack

News

Can we crack Europa's icy secrets?

News

News

The big squeeze

News

It came from outer space

News

Lair of the ice worms

News

Prepare to repair

News

After the flood

News

Dodgy decisions?

News

News

Targeting the viral outlaws

News

Allergy therapy

News

Methane alarm

News

Easy rider

News

Delightful diesel

News

Sounding off at the movies

News

Ducks flock to robo-sheepdog trials

News

If you had a hammer. . .

News

China's fires fuel the greenhouse

News

Bad sport

News

Early birds make the most of global warming

News

Power crazy

News

Deadly damp

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Get your fix

News

Quick fix

News

Rabbit payouts

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Dumbing down

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Burning bright

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Wet, wet, dry . . .

News

This video will self-destruct after 10 hours

News

Strawberry fields forever

News

Fatal dose

News

Vaccine alert

News

Staying alive

News

Lab plots Europe's interactive future

News

Undercover agents

News

Moon-based volcanoes turn up the heat

News

Health

Outwitting the superbugs

News

Health

Eat your charcoal, son

News

Air bags for choppers

News

Opinion

91av. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Editorial : Spooky truth

SO NOW we know: the CIA lied. All those Americans who sighted UFOs in the Fifties and Sixties weren't—as military types claimed at the time—the deluded victims of unusual atmospheric phenomena after all. What they really saw were top-secret US surveillance planes flying at high altitude. The puzzling thing about last weekend's admission by the …

Opinion

Editorial : Tilting at pylons - It's time to pull the plug on the debate about cancer and power lines

Opinion

Features

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Calculated gambling

New York Peter Baring, former chairman of Barings bank, will never forget the name Nick Leeson. From a desk in Singapore, the sandy-haired derivatives trader single-handedly lost £830 million of the bank's money through ill-considered trading in options and futures between July 1992 and February 1995. Barings collapsed, and in a masterpiece of understatement the …

Features

The People's fossils

Features

And now the TV forecast ...

Features

Requiem for the soul

Features

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Thistle diary :

Westminster IT'S hard to credit, but some of the most time-consuming cases that MPs are called on to handle concern alleged negligence for postoperative infections. Michael Day certainly touched a raw nerve in "Are you really safe in their hands?", an article in which he discussed the health risks posed by powdered surgeons' gloves ( …

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Forum : Bacon, listeria and tomato . . .

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Review : All life is here . . .

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Review : Until the storm

Books & Arts

Review : Do no harm

Books & Arts

Review : A bloody tale

Books & Arts

Review : Bill's way

Books & Arts

Review : Scrubbing the future clean

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Review : You are entering the human brain

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Forum : Wow! Was that ET?

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Best sellers : from San Francisco

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Review : Collected works

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Review : The undivided self

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Review : Pointy things

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Review : Doom and gloom

Books & Arts

Review : Cosmic seductions

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Regulars

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Feedback

ON THE INTERNET , people are not always who they seem. The InterNIC, which registers Internet domains (Web site addresses) in the US, recently registered the domain "Resistance-Is-Futile" as a site belonging to Microsoft. Computer users everywhere, especially paranoid ones who had already detected similarities between Microsoft and the Borg from Star Trek, were easily …

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