Why straight sex is not safe sex
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This week's magazine
27 July 1991
Issue 1779
Editor's picks
Going for growth: A new institute in Cambridge takes a molecular approach to the age-old problems of developmental biology. This basic research may unlock some of the secrets of cancer
Features
Desert Storm: A space-age war – One year ago next week Iraq invaded Kuwait, provoking a war with the US and its allies. But without an armada of snooping satellites, Iraq’s battle was lost almost before it began
Features
Physics
A supercollider for Europe
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Life and death on the wagon trail: Eighty-seven pioneers set off in 1846 to cross the arid wastelands of the American Midwest – nearly half died. Their fate reveals what can happen to groups under extreme stress
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Table of contents
News
Titanic voyage views life on the ocean floor
News
Iraq clings to its nuclear secrets
News
The big top goes on at Sizewell
News
IBM brings copycats in from the cold
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‘Unpredictable’ geology fuels doubts over dump site
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HIV-positive health workers face legal controls
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Ethics report condemns ‘ignorant’ AIDS researchers
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Antarctic castaways seek icy evidence of global warming
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Music pirates made to pay the piper
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Cash for closure enrages nuclear physicists
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Poland searches for uranium casualties
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Melbourne skull may hold clues to origin of man
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Europe’s lost ozone
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Warning letter links asthma deaths to drugs
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Call for cash to stop German science going West
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AIDS drug fight
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Fossil kidnap
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Ivory torched for Elephant Day
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Fish suffocate
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Foresting Britain
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Skin care
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BTG blues
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Ditched dish
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Science: Astronomers bowled over by fast-spin pulsars
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Science: The planet that should have died
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Science: How to make a molecular shuttle
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Science: Marfan syndrome linked to gene
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Science: Magnetic fields slow a snail’s pace
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Science: Cabbages and chemistry
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Science: Viking famines echoed in Japan
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Science: Doped buckyballs set superconductivity record
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Technology
Technology: Storms ahead for US weather satellites
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Technology
Technology: TV that’s fit to be hung
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Technology
Technology: Digital radio reaches the parts . . .
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Technology
Technology: Aviators battle with clouds of ash
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Technology
Technology: Up above the world so high, shooting people from the sky
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Technology
Technology: CDs break the law of the airwaves
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Patents: Mammals’ birth control
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Patents: Mathematical machines
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Patents: Patent information
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Patents: Hi-fi arteries
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Patents: All their own work
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Patents: Checkout time
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Features
Why straight sex is not safe sex
The number of AIDS cases in Western countries will peak in the mid-1990s, say some reports. But that is only half the story, as another, bigger epidemic could be on the way
Features
Going for growth: A new institute in Cambridge takes a molecular approach to the age-old problems of developmental biology. This basic research may unlock some of the secrets of cancer
Features
Desert Storm: A space-age war – One year ago next week Iraq invaded Kuwait, provoking a war with the US and its allies. But without an armada of snooping satellites, Iraq’s battle was lost almost before it began
Features
Physics
A supercollider for Europe
Features
Life and death on the wagon trail: Eighty-seven pioneers set off in 1846 to cross the arid wastelands of the American Midwest – nearly half died. Their fate reveals what can happen to groups under extreme stress
Features
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Talking Point: Whose molecule is it anyway?
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Arts / Paintings by Sir Roy Calne at the Barbican Centre, London
Books & Arts
Review: Practical voices in the wilderness
Books & Arts
Books / Stephen Jay Gould
Books & Arts
Review: A misguided history of exploration
Books & Arts
Review: Leopold in his own words
Books & Arts
Review: Gardeners aid conservation
Books & Arts
Review: See the difference
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