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14 August 1999

Issue 2199

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Green miracle

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Mr Pybus builds a plane

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Southern exposure

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To walk again

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Apocalypse then

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News

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They're forever

DIAMONDS provide the most lasting evidence of ancient asteroid impacts, according to geologists in Germany. Falko Langenhorst of the University of Bayreuth and his colleagues have shown that the heat and pressure of an impact convert bits of buried coal or graphite into diamonds (Geology, vol 27, p 747). "The shape of impact diamonds is …

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Behind the scenes

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A wise shark knows when to shut up

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Fevered foliage

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War of the worlds

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No higher

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Vets may have spread mad cow disease

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Space rock is chip off the old block

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Buying time

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Bouncing back

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Turtles in the soup

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Monsanto accused

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The right stuff

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Suicide saves us from the Sun

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Technology

Plumbing the depths

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Killer treat

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Shining clean

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Can Eda help you regain your crowning glory?

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Weigh up a penguin

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Pilots hit the alcohol

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Mock mozzarella

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Pressure gets to you

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Hack it if you can

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On the level

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Wake-up call

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Life

Ebola drug found in forest

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Read my lips

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Online supermarket comes unplugged

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Erring enzyme

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Life

Grains of gold

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Life

Rooting for acid

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Life

Look to the lilies

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Athletes protest as banned list grows

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False alarm

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Named in vain

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No escape

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Brightest and best

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Foul play won the day in the RoboCup

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Space cannibals

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Technology

Puffed-up protection

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Technology

Just add argon

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Technology

No more submarining

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Catching a cure

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Flying eye

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Dope tests on trial

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Opinion

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Humans

Westminster diary

TUBERCULOSIS, the people's plague, claims nearly 1.5 million lives worldwide every year—the eighth biggest killer in the global disease league. Regrettably, careless treatment regimes have encouraged drug-resistant strains of the bacillus to develop, which don't respond well to further treatment. John Crofton, the Edinburgh doctor who showed 40 years ago that giving TB patients a …

Opinion

Financing innovation

Opinion

Don't call us . . .

Opinion

Natural justice?

Opinion

Air-raid warning

Opinion

Nowhere to run

Opinion

Features

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Green miracle

TAKE a long, deep breath. Now spare a moment to think about the precious oxygen you've just inhaled. Without it you'd be unconscious in a couple of minutes, and dead soon afterwards. It's no mystery where this life-sustaining gas comes from: plants churn it out as a by-product of photosynthesis. If they didn't, neither we …

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Mr Pybus builds a plane

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Southern exposure

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To walk again

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Apocalypse then

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from London

Calendar by David Ewing Duncan, Fourth Estate The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman, Penguin From Brains to Consciousness? by Steven Rose, Princeton University Press The Little Book of Science by John Gribbin, Penguin The Mathematical Brain by Brian Butterworth, Macmillan A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar, Simon & Schuster The Science of Discworld …

Books & Arts

Glittering prize

Books & Arts

Tales from the Valley

Books & Arts

Field fare

Books & Arts

Wild card

Books & Arts

Forgotten men

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THE FIRST terrestrial "life form" to escape from our Solar System may be a computer virus. One of Feedback's colleagues was trying to open an electronic press release last week when his virus scanner began to bleep madly. No great surprise there. Press agents often seem blissfully unaware that macro viruses might be lurking in …

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