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Can’t stop shopping – Spend, spend, spend scream the signs in the store windows鈥攚ords that spell disaster for those who can’t control the urge to buy. Michael Day reports from the shopping capital of the world

Feynman and the psychotherapist

Planet in a bottle

Small, smart and adaptable – Staffed by squads of fist-sized robots, tomorrow’s high-precision assembly lines will be put together at a few hours’ notice on a desk-sized factory floor. Bennett Daviss reports

Table of contents

News

Satellite feud may delay digital TV

Into the eye of the storm 鈥�

Moa genes could rise from the dead

World class ranking for Britain’s biochemists

Rare plants trampled in immigration crackdown

Anti-porn firm silences Net critic

Silicon Valley saves ancient scrolls

Inquiry blasts explosives lab

Europe lets in American supermaize 鈥�

鈥� as plan for future gene releases comes under fire

Mars mission may be postponed on doctor’s orders

Anti-cat jab

Plaque attack

Blood bar

No quark parts

It beats lazing on a beach鈥�

Cut-price collider

Cryptic reward

Drug ban

The other big issue

Science : Wobbling world brings iceberg surges

Science : Can DNA in food find its way into cells?

Science : Why microbes need their midday siesta

Physics

Science: A strange twist in the tale of the Universe

Science : The cat in a box came back in a state

Science : If it’s important, you’ll remember it for longer

Science : Gene branches out in a big way

Science : Hidden damage triggers cancer

Technology

Technology : Squat cat gets cars off to a clean start

Technology

Technology : Online personality makes the best of all possible worlds

Technology

Technology : Altered vines turn the worm

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : `Cooking’ eases the pain of whiplash

Technology

Technology : Collagen road signs show nerves the way

Technology

Technology : Why the grass grows greener in Wales

Technology

Technology : Electronic police spoil video heist

Opinion

Editorial: If it’s safe, then prove it

You might think that the faceless bureaucrats of Brussels would occasionally learn that secrecy doesn't pay. But it seems not.

Editorial : Oxbridge hogs the limelight – THE 1996 assessment of research standards at British universities has now been published (This Week, p 6). If you want to surf round the country to see which departments are at the leading edge internationally wit

Features

Can’t stop shopping – Spend, spend, spend scream the signs in the store windows鈥攚ords that spell disaster for those who can’t control the urge to buy. Michael Day reports from the shopping capital of the world

Feynman and the psychotherapist

Planet in a bottle

Small, smart and adaptable – Staffed by squads of fist-sized robots, tomorrow’s high-precision assembly lines will be put together at a few hours’ notice on a desk-sized factory floor. Bennett Daviss reports

More

Review : Lingua made franker

Review : Survival of the cowardly

Review : Values added

Review : Life as cartoon

Review : More, please

Review : Art and the atom

Review : Mind made objects

Review : Fear not

Review : Nerd’s corner

Review : Solar imagery

Review : Rose coloured spectacle

Review : Dissident history

Review : Salt of the Earth

Review : You read it here first

Review : Life is a beach

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from London

Forum : Science and sensibility

Forum : The status it deserves

Thistle diary : Yawning holes and rowdy neighbours – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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