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Vandals of suburbia – Britain’s priceless wildlife habitats are being wrecked, says Fred Pearce, and gardeners are often the unwitting culprits

Paralysis lost – Norrtalje, Sweden. Winter 1993. Twenty-five year old Thomas Westberg makes the fateful decision to take his new Polaris motorbike for a spin. The weather is abysmal. Pouring rain distorts his vision. Icy snow coats the road. But Westberg

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News

Science : Old rocks don’t die, they just go underground

Science : The genes that keep AIDS at bay

Give a drug a bad name… – Morphine is the world’s most effective painkiller, yet because of its reputation as a dangerous drug it is rarely prescribed even to terminally ill patients

Sulphur success

Rocket jitters

Cooling dust

Postcard to Saturn

Newborn palsy link

Chemists make giant leap on the catwalk

Science : We’re all going down the dump

Science : Atom bombs put years on shellfish

Science : Cold water poured on climate models

Science : Knowing when to let go

Technology

Technology : There’s a breathless hush on the telly tonight . . .

Technology

Technology : All change at optical junctions

Science : Choice words spur genes into action

Technology

Technology : Search and destroy to tackle arthritis

Technology

Technology : NO hiding place for blood drug

Cleaner gold improves miners’ prospects

Mad cow test could avert slaughter

BSE may lurk in pigs and chickens

No respite from city smogs

Clinton challenges stop-go funding

Little creeps predict quakes

Recipe for gorgeous gonads

Technology

Technology : Greenhouse patrol that kills on the wing

Weevils go to work on water weeds

West changes tune on Soviet reactors

Why heart problems can make it hard to think

NASA gets ready to fend off Martians

Who will pay for HIV’s big push?

Lab sell-off could cost millions

If you can’t beat them, join them…

Technology

Technology : Cement marks final exit for asbestos

Technology

Technology : No more tears for jaundiced babies

Technology

Technology : Netropolitan

Technology

Technology : Netropolitan

Technology

Technology : Bacteria dish up toxic meal for mosquito larvae

Opinion

Editorial : It could be you . . . – TWO weeks after the announcement that there may be a link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, Britain is still deep in crisis. Farmers grow ever more desperate as

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Vandals of suburbia – Britain’s priceless wildlife habitats are being wrecked, says Fred Pearce, and gardeners are often the unwitting culprits

Paralysis lost – Norrtalje, Sweden. Winter 1993. Twenty-five year old Thomas Westberg makes the fateful decision to take his new Polaris motorbike for a spin. The weather is abysmal. Pouring rain distorts his vision. Icy snow coats the road. But Westberg

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Review : Words fail us

Review : Physics, quick

Review : Cruel practice

Review : Reviewing Vietnam

Review : California calculating

Review : It’s time to face that lift

Review : A lesson in natural history

Review : Ancient killer returns

Review : No censors

Review : BESTSELLERS from Oxford

Enigma 869 : Solitaire

Thistle diary : Nothing to do with me … – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum : Surfing with the blinkers on – David Brake takes a look at an early attempt to keep the Internet squeaky clean

AustralAsian : Saying “Made in Australia” is not always the best – Bob Johnstone meets a Japanese software mogul chasing imports

Antipodes : Too much government swamps wetlands – Ian Lowe attends an important environmental meeting

Review : Waiting for the sky to fall

AustralAsian : The long march to Asia

Review : Legal nightmare

Review : Mighty Midgley

Review : Gross out

Review : Saint or Sinner?

Forum : They burn heretics, don’t they?

Review : Collected works

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24 February 1996