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Titanic

Hairy space probes

Copy your neighbour

They’re playing my tune

Table of contents

News

Humans

How special muscle fibres makes the fastest sprinters so speedy

Perfect sprinters require one thing 鈥� perfect legs. Arms hardly matter at all.

Massive discovery?

Battlefield

Brazil claims foot-and-mouth sabotage

“No” to gene tests

Bearly female

Volunteers try vaccine

Private launchers to study space rescue

Eat your space greens

I’ve lost my appetite鈥�

Technology

Scratch ‘n’ peel

Technology

Glowing with poor health

Technology

Rubbery roofs

Last resort

Sleepy heads

It pays to do market research

Hope for the badlands

Bright ‘n’ brainy

Buoyed by alcohol

Designer trees

Alien invader

The two that are becoming one

Ouch! That hurts

Technology

Olympian protests

Download your common sense

Nuclear muddle

It does your head in

Saved by polio

Bright young things

Humans

How to keep on running

Humans

Making every muscle count

Humans

Tiny tumblers are stealing the show

The ultimate challenge

What does it take to succeed?

Don’t try too hard (3)

Don’t try too hard (1)

Don’t try too hard (2)

It won’t be crumbling away just yet

Living longer

Ticklish point

Cholesterol block

Happy herb

Shrinking shrub

Opinion

The lark descending

Will maths save the skylark and destroy a fledgling industry?

Father Earth

Here’s mud in your eye!

Westminster diary

Features

Titanic

Hairy space probes

Copy your neighbour

They’re playing my tune

More

Bestsellers from London

To err is stupid

Cover story

We do need sex, really

Take the E train

Regulars

Feedback

The Last Word

This Week鈥檚 Letters

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2 September 2000