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13 April 2002

Issue 2338

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First fruit

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Go for it

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Hunted!

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Smoke gets in your mind

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All the world's a net

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Bunnies join the cloning club

IT'S not as if they need any help to reproduce, but at last rabbits have joined the list of animals that have been cloned. Several groups tried but failed, until Jean-Paul Renard and his colleagues at the National Institute for Agricultural Research in Paris figured out a way (Nature Biotechnology, vol 20, p 366). The …

News

Suckers for love

News

Watch your step

News

Bubble bursts?

News

The weakest link

News

Land ahoy

News

How a brief encounter could lead to a revolution in the cinema

News

Technology

Penning the write pongs

News

Technology

Lick this

News

Technology

Squeezing out more gadgets

News

Technology

Down the tubes

News

Fried, scrambled or sterilised?

News

Long-lasting sound

News

Flash, bang, wallop

News

Visual attraction

News

War is no picnic

News

Something in the water…

News

HIV vaccine trial

News

Ten labour myths

News

No easy answer

News

Hot pants

News

Can't sing? then change your tune…

News

Magnetic mix-up

News

Bugs broadcasting corporation

News

Ahead by a nose

News

Bovine tuberculosis could linger in pastures

News

Fast and furious

News

The time is precisely, erm, hold on…

News

Feed the world

News

Hunt the vulcans

News

Television makes men hunkier and women chunkier

News

Nasty neighbours

News

Put on your PC specs

News

A natural mistake?

News

Life's ups and downs

News

Healthy eating?

News

To help nerves regrow, first find your machete

News

Speed freak

News

Deadly fakes

News

Down to Earth

News

File those green reports

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India cracks down on HIV

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Grave expectations

News

Stem cells do their stuff for Parkinson's patient

News

Just call, will you

News

Opinion

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Westminster diary

THE International Atomic Energy Agency has plans to rid Africa of the tsetse fly by releasing millions of male flies sterilised with gamma radiation (New ¾«¶«´«Ã½, 23 February, p 17) . It certainly looks like an attractive idea, as the tsetse fly causes even more problems in Africa than AIDS. But I asked Hilary Benn, …

Opinion

Packet of crisps with your cosmology?

Opinion

The sun king

Opinion

Dazed and confused

Opinion

Features

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First fruit

WHEN the Romans invaded Britain two thousand years ago, they probably took one bite of the local apple and immediately sent home for scions of juicy-fruited Italian trees to graft onto the rootstocks of the bitter native crabs. And that's how eating apples got to England, suspects Barrie Juniper, now an emeritus fellow at Oxford …

Features

Technology

Go for it

Features

Life

Hunted!

Features

Smoke gets in your mind

Features

All the world's a net

Features

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Bloody Greenland

A Farewell to Greenland's Wildlife by Kjeld Hansen, NHB Mailorder Bookstore (Fax: +44 (0)1803 865280), £15, ISBN 8789723015 AUTOMATIC rifles, motorised dinghies and even video recorders are pushing many of Greenland's wildlife species towards the same sad fate as the dodo and the great auk. Hunting has always been a way of life for the …

Books & Arts

The end is Nigh

Books & Arts

Bestsellers

Books & Arts

Not so noble

Books & Arts

The original ground force

Books & Arts

Keep your eyes open

Books & Arts

Down under

Books & Arts

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Feedback

ONE OF the eerie things about the World Wide Web is how some sites become frozen in time when an untimely event befalls their creators. Many of these ghost sites belong to failed companies whose clocks stopped when the money ran out, but whose websites were not auctioned off with the office furniture. They are …

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