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The zero option

Squatters take control – What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed

Stranger in a strange land

Noises on

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In the blood

Science : Schr枚dinger’s cation leaps into reality

Science : Dozing echidnas sleep like newborn babies

Science : Early whales had no taste for salt

Science : Getting nowhere upsets the brain

Science : Tadpole galaxies are lightweights

Science : Whooping cough paves the way for malaria vaccine

Science : Cancer’s many points of departure

Japan takes its medicine – The fate of hundreds of haemophiliacs has struck at the very heart of the cosy relationship between Japanese doctors, drug companies and government

Oil prospectors pose threat to Amazon’s ancient tribes

Child smokers

Shaky engineering

Murky waters

Hastening death

Daytime view of northern lights

Technology

Technology : Bubbles give a sharper image

Science : Not-guilty verdict on cancer gene

Science : New state of matter pictured at last

Wealthy nations face drinking water crisis

The fall and fall of British research funding

Fickle greens undermine consumer power

`Piracy’ law leaves Brazil open to exploitation

Icelanders argue over their ancestors

The iceman cometh from Italy

Giant leap for Californian frog

Minamata victims win cash at last

Germans pull plug on Britain’s batteries

Hackers play war games with the Pentagon

Living sea walls keep floods at bay

Urban apocalypse postponed?

Technology

Technology : Flight plans for `doc-in-a-box’

Technology

Technology : Microwave will keep the weevils out of wheat

Technology

Technology : Titchy scanners for your PET mouse

Technology

Technology : Surgeons hatch a better skin graft

Technology

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Technology

Technology : Bionic brain cells teach the language of nerves

Technology

Technology : Gadget will put Channel 5 viewers in the picture

Technology

Technology : Many hands make the robot work

Opinion

Editorial : Beware the juggernaut, my son – LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track.

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Features

The zero option

Squatters take control – What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed

Stranger in a strange land

Noises on

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Review : Crystal-ball gazing

Enigma 877 : Fantastic football

Antipodes : Geoscience on shaky ground – Ian Lowe finds another target of Australia’s razor gang

Thistle diary : Slow justice and a killer on the loose – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum : Digging away at the foundations – Haim Watzman explains why science and religion in Israel are at odds

Forum : Many happy recoveries

Review : A crisis of credibility

Review : Collected works

Review : BESTSELLERS from Sydney

Review : Doctor Death

Review : Heavy conversations

Review : Liberating ideas

Review : Sticks like glue

Review : Fossils that New York forgot

Review : Dreams are made of this

Review : Building bridges

Review : United they stood . . .

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