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1 December 2001

Issue 2319

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A very English habit

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Slaughter of the innocents

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Write here, write now

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News

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Far flung

POLLEN from genetically modified maize appears to have reached remote mountainsides in the wilds of Mexico. David Quist and Ignacio Chapela from the University of California at Berkeley found that the stray pollen had crossed with wild maize growing on mountainsides of the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca in southern Mexico. They suspect it came from …

News

Crash course

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Crash ahead

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Slippery fingers

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Nothing is the answer

News

Call the tune

News

Could your laptop do better than an estate agent?

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Dye hard

News

Technology

Lights burn bright

News

Technology

Iris pirates

News

Caught on camera

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Having Mum for dinner

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Hunting for gravity

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Geeks are no longer freaks

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Technology

Altered image

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Fish out of water

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Coolness under fire

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Big chilly countries lose out under Kyoto

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Chef's special

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Seeds of destruction

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Bring back Buddha

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Cause for hope

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Third place in the space race

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Stopping diabetes

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Slash and burn

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Schizophrenia linked to sexually transmitted disease

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Lively atmosphere

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Moby's makeover

News

In space, no one gets to sleep

News

Bruising the Moon

News

Death in the post

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An appetite for cancer

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Money hurts

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Shut it, say Irish

News

After the war

News

The dairy difference

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The weakest link

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Bioweapons treaty withers

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Inoculate your mind

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Brain pills

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Holes in the hood

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Humans

Don't expect any miracles

News

Getting warmer

News

Opinion

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Westminster diary

MARGARET THATCHER and I had an intriguing exchange at the end of the 1970s. At a Prime Minister's Question Time, I asked her if she could persuade her Dutch counterpart to explain a mystery of the day: how crucial secrets were stolen from the world's most advanced enriched-uranium enterprise at Almelo in the Netherlands, only …

Opinion

All our futures

Opinion

Seizing tomorrow

Opinion

Brave new medicine

Opinion

A question of trust

Opinion

Features

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A very English habit

Today it is Afghanistan. A couple of decades ago it was the "golden triangle" in South-East Asia. Before that it was India and Mexico, China and Turkey. Opium and the people who grow it were always the outsiders, the infidels, the Oriental fiends. Even as harassed Victorian mothers lulled their children to sleep with laudanum-laced …

Features

Slaughter of the innocents

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Write here, write now

Features

Space

Blast from the vast

Features

Smart Bullets

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Emotion by Dylan Evans, Oxford University Press Dawkins vs Gould by Kim Sterelny, Icon Books The Nothing That Is by Robert Kaplan, Penguin Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Life at the Extremes by Frances Ashcroft, Flamingo Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees, Phoenix Press Words and Rules by Steven …

Books & Arts

Be careful out there

Books & Arts

The Bone Museum: Travels in the lost worlds of dinosaurs and birds by Wayne Grady

Books & Arts

Wind stirrers

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I think, therefore I am

Books & Arts

A Gap in Nature: Discovering the world's extinct animals by Tim Flannery

Books & Arts

Fictional Echoes

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Regulars

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Feedback

FOLLOWING in the footsteps of Sellafield (formerly Windscale) nuclear power station, the tobacco, food and brewing giant Philip Morris Companies Inc has just announced a new name for itself—Altria Group Inc. Why the change? Well, the company says that market research has demonstrated that the public feels it is "changing for the better and becoming …

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