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The green solution for India’s poor: Nationwide projects have done little to halt the degradation of India’s environment or feed its people. – Local self-management is the answer

Whatever happened to acid rain?: The greenhouse effect has put acid rain in the shade. But the acid hasn’t gone away and nor have the arguments about the damage it does

Physician, heal thy genes: The human genome project has already helped geneticists to track down genes that cause disease. But cures for such ills are still a distant prospect

A cosmic cake mix: Can primitive meteorites tell us what happened before the Solar System was formed?

Physics

Fractals 鈥� a geometry of nature: Fractal geometry plays two

Table of contents

News

Europe sails into transatlantic fishing storm

Science: HIV and African parasite may be linked

Nuts to plastic buttons

Ozone hole

Marks for genes

Baltic brush-up

Genome jamboree

Lethal capture

Suspicions could floor plans for factory of the future . . .

. . . as basic research draws Japanese firm to London

Trained to kill?

Calming elixir

Shuttle leak delays observatory launch . . . again

Technology

Technology: Sight and sound telephones come closer to home

Europe may not go Dutch on chips

USSR space scientists seek NASA-style agency

What is killing the Mediterranean’s dolphins?

Auckland backs Antarctic protocol

Safety concerns could delay Sizewell start-up

World’s largest buffalo herd under threat

Nations agree to coordinate research in the Arctic

Cut-price AIDS drugs proposed for Third World

US plans to buy into childhood study

Japan’s researchers dig in for budget battle

Congress slams misconduct in medical research

Science: Gene could cause osteoarthritis

Science: Can bacteria direct their own evolution?

Science: Why it’s far safer to be in the air

Science: Sacred law of physics is safe after all

Science: Viral infection may cause childhood leukaemia

Technology

Technology: DNA gun on target for gene therapy

Technology

Technology: Military fire-fighters will fan greenhouse flames

Technology

Technology: Helicopter cuts rotor for safer flight

Technology

Technology: Loneliness of the long-distance inventor

Technology

Technology: Quick-change plastic may make for cheaper chips

Opinion

Comment: Window-dressing in Japan?

Comment: Doubts and certainties

Features

The green solution for India’s poor: Nationwide projects have done little to halt the degradation of India’s environment or feed its people. – Local self-management is the answer

Whatever happened to acid rain?: The greenhouse effect has put acid rain in the shade. But the acid hasn’t gone away and nor have the arguments about the damage it does

Physician, heal thy genes: The human genome project has already helped geneticists to track down genes that cause disease. But cures for such ills are still a distant prospect

A cosmic cake mix: Can primitive meteorites tell us what happened before the Solar System was formed?

Physics

Fractals 鈥� a geometry of nature: Fractal geometry plays two

More

Thistle Diary: Heavy metal and festivals – More comment from Westminster

Review: Raiders in the sky

Forum: The white badge of science / A look at the design of the traditional dress of scientists

Forum: The case against organic farming – Farming with chemicals may be best for wildlife

Forum: With reference . . . – Navigating the British letter of reference

Forum: Better than the average wimp – Being ordinary

Review: Still stirring after all these years

Review: The skill of the nuclear undertaker

Review: Hoagland looks back with curiosity

Review: Inspiring leader

Review: The good, the bad and the green in Amazonia

Nitrates in soil and water

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