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Atomic truths exploded
Hiroshima's Shadow
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Mad cow chronicles
Death on the Menu - The Link: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Scrapie
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How Pasteur turned over new fields
Louis Pasteur
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The land of the germ-free
The Gospel of Germs
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And how are the GPs doing?
General Practice Under the National Health Service
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Made in China
Imperfect Conceptions
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In search of the Holy Grail
The Biological Basis of Cancer
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Making molehills out of mountains
Ludwik Rajchman (1881-1965) was a polyglot Pole of internationalist bent and institutionalist accent, who spearheaded some of the noblest humanitarian initiatives of this century: the United Nations...
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Electoral odds
DEMOCRATS Frontrunner: Al Gore Albert Gore jr, vice-president of the US, will be 52 in November 2000. Product of a Tennessean political dynasty, he was educated at Harvard and Vanderbilt universities...
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For Peto's sake, give up
Fred Pearce talks to Richard Peto abouthis crusade to save 150 million lives by halving the number of adult smokers and why his research is under threat. Worldly Wise: 23 Few people can claim to have...
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The dynasty 2000 stakes
Who will be the next US president? Huw Richards takes soundings from the academic experts My name is Al Gore and I used to be the next president of the United States." As well as displaying a...
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Two eyes on the sky
Observatories and jobs were sacrificed to build twin giant telescopes, but was it all worth it? asks Alison Goddard In coming days the first of two giant telescopes will open its eye on the heavens....
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Higher channels
John Davies focuses on radio and television programmes likely to be of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Archaeology is doing well: last week both BBC2 and Channel 4...
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Mission: conserve highfliers
Time is running out for rare Himalayan butterflies, says David Spencer Smith The world's greatest concentration of high mountains lies within the Karakoram range in western Himalaya. It is an arid...