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21 August 1999

Issue 2200

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War of words

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A stellar performance

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War of words

Features

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Life

The Martians in your kidneys

Features

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Virtuoso performance

Features

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Space

Fractured Universe

Features

Table of contents

News

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Waste water preserves food

WASTE water from olive oil production could be an abundant source of cheap natural preservatives for food and cosmetics, say researchers in Italy. Each year, Italy's olive oil industry generates more than 800 000 tonnes of waste water. Olive mills use huge amounts of warm water to wash the olive paste. So all the water-soluble …

News

Hidden scars

News

Devastating diversity

News

Inflated claims

News

Frayed nerves

News

Flying fire hazard

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Old adversary

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The second wave

News

Mysterious force

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Yum yum...

News

A long story

News

Stripy bunny

News

Deadly stowaway

News

Lynx fall prey to the vagaries of weather

News

Eclipse eyewitness

News

Elvis lives

News

Breathe easier

News

Bettering the triple test

News

Bright idea

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Season to taste

News

Technology

Free for all?

News

Technology

Shot while gaming

News

Technology

Flashy warning

News

Technology

Big bang theory

News

Speedy healer

News

Reading the future

News

Precocious

News

Do clock genes make addiction tick?

News

You can run, but you can't hide

News

Silent safeguard

News

We're too courteous to madding computers

News

Smoke on the water

News

Starry mix-up

News

You've got it taped

News

Spies like us

News

Don't mention Darwin

News

The cluster culprit

News

Roll-over week

News

Cat farm closes

News

Crash landing

News

Forewarned

News

The champions

News

Opinion

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A stellar performance

A COMBINATION of chance, unusual dedication, and growing antipodean cultural identity have led a New Zealander and an Australian independently to discover a nova—the rare event of an exploding star. One Saturday evening, Alan Gilmore of the University of Canterbury's Mt John Observatory on the South Island of New Zealand and Australian amateur astronomer Peter …

Opinion

Humans

Westminster Diary

Opinion

Life without NASA

Opinion

The gene healer

Opinion

Wolves at the door

Opinion

Only teleconnect

Opinion

Features

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War of words

HUMANS are quintessentially verbal creatures. Ours is a world of words—so much so that it is impossible even to imagine life without language. No wonder, then, that anthropologists are obsessed with finding out why and how language evolved, and, equally, linguists are obsessed with trying to understand how each of us comes to acquire this …

Features

Life

The Martians in your kidneys

Features

Virtuoso performance

Features

Space

Fractured Universe

Features

More

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Reality check

Pandora's Hope by Bruno Latour, Harvard, $19.95/£12.50, ISBN 067465336X (paperback) B-52 BOMBERS do not fly, Bruno Latour cordially insists. And if you ask Latour, who is Professor of the Sociology of Innovation at the School of Mines in Paris, whether microbes existed before Louis Pasteur discovered them in 1865, he may well answer that it …

Books & Arts

from Oxford

Books & Arts

Go with the Flo

Books & Arts

Shore thing

Books & Arts

Warm bugs

Books & Arts

Spicy tales

Books & Arts

Time after time

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

SOME people seem determined to take all the fun out of fondling fruit. Engineering students at the University of Delaware have invented a computer-controlled sensor for testing how ripe water melons are. It could, according to William J. Watson, executive director of the US National Watermelon Association, result in huge savings for the water melon …

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