The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from May 2000:
Now, That's a Stretch!(Australian army finds evidence that stretching before exercise prevents injury)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000; ... You know how important it is to stretch before you do anything physically strenuous? Of course you do. Heck, everyone knows that stretching your muscles before exercise helps lengthen and relax them, which can help prevent injury. Not so, says a team of Australian researchers. In fact, ...
Frozen WAIST Land.(indication that those born during a cold winter may have a greater fat content)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000 ... Okay, so the previous news item might have been a "waste." But this one is about the "waist." Get this: Researchers working in Southampton and Chicago, Illinois, say that if you were born during a particularly cold winter, chances are that you will end up getting fatter as you get older ....
December's Big Bad Moon.(events that take place in December include the official start of winter)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000 ... Okay, here are the facts: 1. In 1999, Northern Hemisphere winter officially began at 2:44 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Dec. 22. That's the exact moment of the winter solstice -- when the Sun reaches its lowest point in the sky as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. ...
Monkey See, Monkey Two.(first primate, a rhesus monkey, is cloned in Oregon)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000 ... Wow! Can you believe it? The first non-human primate -- a monkey -- has been cloned. It happened in January, when researchers at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in Beaverton announced that they had created "Tetra," a female rhesus macaque. They did it by splitting a ...
Meteor Showers on the Moon?(observers see flashes on the moon during the Leonid meteor shower)(Brief Article)
May 01, 2000 ... On the morning of Nov. 18, 1999, B. Cudnik of Houston, Texas, was looking at the Moon through a telescope, when he saw a brief flash near the center of the Moon's dark limb. Miles away, in Mount Airy, Maryland, David Dunham was videotaping the Moon at the same time through his telescope ....
STOPPING MOTHER NATURE.(preventing lava flow from destroying a town in Iceland)
May 01, 2000; ... On the fourteenth day, the force of the eruption increased. The liquid sprays of lava reached heights of around a thousands feet. Complete pitch-blackness enveloped the town at noon. Five million tons of lava were now in motion, closing the distance to the harbor wall. All ships were ...
Kitchen Volcanoes.(Recipe)
May 01, 2000; ... Find out more about volcanic magma with these edible demonstrations. Pushy, Pushy Underground magma flows can shape Earth's crust even without an eruption. Geologists call this subsurface sculpting intrusive volcanism. See for yourself how it works. You ...
SCI CHAT.
May 01, 2000 ... SCI-CHAT, ODYSSEY's reader response department, welcomes your original poems, stories, drawings, and responses to questions posed in the magazine and on our Web site at http://www.odysseymagazine.com. You can e-mail us your responses (as well as other appropriate materials), with SCI-CHAT ...
BIG on DINOS!(further research on dinosaur fossils may provide more information about animals)
May 01, 2000 ... Dinosaurs haven't walked the earth for 65 million years, but in the case of these fascinating creatures, the saying "Out of sight, out of mind" hardly applies. Tyrannosaurus rex, whose name means "tyrant lizard king," appeared in many 20th-century movies, but is probably best known for its ...
Correction.
May 01, 2000 ... In the March 2000 issue on page 42, we said that the Latin ...
ANIMAL ANGLES A LUNDI!(puffins in Iceland)
May 01, 2000; ... For months, a drab-looking bird lives at sea. But as spring approaches, the bird mates, molts, and dresses up with a white face and breast, red-rimmed eyes, and orange and blue beak, to go ashore. Icelanders call the bird lundi. Its scientific name is Fratercula arctica. In English, it's ...
Got lost in the translation
May 02, 2000;
'OBSESSED' FATHER SUED BY HOSPITAL Gt Ormond St fear over man whose son died
May 02, 2000;
Livingstone is hit by loose cannon claim as aide quits
May 02, 2000;
200m boost for Phoenix bid for Rover
May 02, 2000;
Green plan for 3,000 parking tax
May 02, 2000;
Threat to second class post
May 02, 2000;
Candidates round on Ken over riots
May 02, 2000;
Arms plea in Ulster talks
May 02, 2000;
Now the reckoning 100 face court after May Day rioting hits London
May 02, 2000;
How the hooligans were vanquished Diary of the day that saw huge police presence move quickly into action to contain rioters
May 02, 2000;
Trapped and terrified in a 'war zone'
May 02, 2000;
Innocent man trapped for eight hours
May 02, 2000;
The woman dressed to kill Boycott's reputation
May 02, 2000;
Greek holiday for Charles Extra term for The Graduate
May 02, 2000
Murder hunt launched as mugged woman, 79, dies
May 02, 2000;
Cut-off point for hospital patients' hair stylist
May 02, 2000;
Euro Nicki strikes a chord with the PM
May 02, 2000
Killer link fear over women who vanished
May 02, 2000;
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May 02, 2000
Tate touts
May 02, 2000
Primary link
May 02, 2000
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May 02, 2000
A plot at steak
May 02, 2000
Peer pressure
May 02, 2000
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May 02, 2000
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May 02, 2000
The scandal of gambling our money on film makers Today Chris Smith is putting filmmakers in charge of Lottery-funded British movies. ALEXANDER WALKER thinks it an abuse of public money
May 02, 2000;
The London demonstration Listen to the voters
May 02, 2000
Don't throw money at Rover
May 02, 2000;
Met's sick-note purge 'hits the genuinely ill'
May 02, 2000;
Charity's a toddle for a little boy with a big voice
May 02, 2000;
Ashley enters fast lane to wedded bliss
May 02, 2000
Fake Pokmon cards seized Compile your own CDs
May 02, 2000
Take 3 nurses and 3 estate agents, put them on a desert island, stand back and film ..
May 02, 2000;
New tech
May 02, 2000;
sport,column
May 02, 2000;
Bravery's leading lady ready for starring role
May 02, 2000;
Langer sure Middlesex will simply do it better
May 02, 2000;
You made us crease up
May 02, 2000
cricket confronts the spectre of cheating
May 02, 2000;
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May 02, 2000;
Wenger looks East LONDON FOOTBALL, BRILLIANTLY TACKLED
May 02, 2000
Lim deal is put on hold
May 02, 2000
Lewis: I'll run for years
May 02, 2000;
sport in short
May 02, 2000
Lampard is out for the rest of the season Arsenal v West Ham FA Carling Premiership (Kick-off 7.45pm)
May 02, 2000
Forget the strippers, Harry's top of the bill
May 02, 2000;
We'd miss them that's for sure ...
May 02, 2000;
Why Olsen didn't fit crazy image
May 02, 2000;
NAME AND SHAME THE RIOTERS SAYS BLAIR PM in plea to relatives after London violence
May 02, 2000;
Time for ICC to get tough
May 02, 2000;
Burton's chance
May 02, 2000;
GRAND PRIX COULTHARD IN JET CRASH Amazing escape as two pilots are killed
May 02, 2000;
Protect statues, police warned ahead of riot Name and shame May Day rioters, says Blair
May 02, 2000;