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Table of contents

News

Asteroid threat is ‘greater than ever’

Tracking dangerous asteroids is no longer enough, it's time to make sure we can fend off any coming our way

Engineering safer soya

Dispatches

End of female circumcision?

Environment

Silent killer could fell ancient giants of the California forests

Terror warning over laptops

Soundbites

Science is listed as latest casualty of 11 September

Environment

Will one get away?

Environment

Coming soon to a tank near you

Now even a very personal body part can be grown in a dish

Meteorite impacts frequently trigger tsunamis

Gene tweak will banish bad hair days

Nicotine triggers cot death

We hear that鈥�

How mothers-in-law got a bad name

Chips with sparkle

Flash of light switches on pumpsin labs the size of postage stamps

Tape measure for the Earth

Just a sniff can stop strokes

How fast is gravity?

Technology

Dirty money

Technology

The best ads a man can get

Technology

Life in the old TV yet

Shield against assassin’s poison

Space station should look down, not up

Gotta roll with it to keep ships afloat

That wide-eyed look reveals one sad cow

Better than an orange

Goodbye planet

Rain of fire

Slobs take heart

Cold snap from space

Opinion

Weapon of mass support

There's a way to deal with Saddam without alienating the Arab world

Now find me an inventor for the cameras鈥�

I think, but who am I?

The Word Earthworm

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

The bodyguard

An ancient immune system hiding in our cells has the power to switch off genes at will. We could soon be harnessing this awesome force to stop cancer and viruses dead, says Philip Cohen

Forbidden zone

Monster ink

Boy or girl?

More

Across the wide Sargasso Sea

American beauties

Telling tales

London’s leading light

Bestsellers – Cambridge

What are you like?

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Was all the Earth’s water brought here by comets?

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7 September 2002