In print: the ethics of drugs as weapons, preserving dinosaur footprints, the TKX hacking scandal, mobile downloads and much more

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• When drugs become weapons
  Chemical weapons are banned - or are they? Steve Wright reports on how an exemption to the convention raises questions about their use in law enforcement.
• New light shed on the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth
  Scientists have found a novel way to study some unreachable fossils in Spain.
• Royal Mail fails to address database issue
  Free Our Data: The fight continues between government bodies over who controls postcode information.
• Newly Asked Questions:
  • What will more research on Wi-Fi's health effects show?
    If it's anything like the outcome of the further research on the health effects of mobile phones that was called for in 2000, then it'll probably show that we need ... more research.
  • Is my notebook computer's LCD screen faulty?
    The question has been raised by a couple of MacBook users in the US. They have launched a class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging that it has misrepresented the capabilities of the screens of its notebooks.
• Is that an orc over there or an al-Qaida terrorist?
  Aleks Krotoski: Online games are flooded with terrorists, trying to steal your money and your innocence. Or so the popular press says.
• Games
  Spider-Man 3 | Tomb Raider: Anniversary | SBK-07
• No such thing as a free download
  Victor Keegan: It is difficult to grasp how successful the mobile phone industry has become. People think of it as a sideshow compared to the internet, yet in terms of revenues generated from content, it is already far bigger.
• It only takes one weak link to unleash a chain of trouble online
  Andrew Brown: I'm puzzled why there has not been more of an outcry over the TKX credit card theft. It is the largest and best-organised theft of credit card numbers that has ever come to light.
• Technobile
  Charles Arthur: Microsoft has finally got around to producing a Word 2007 converter - but it's big and it's bossy.
• 'Philips is now a very different company'
  The boss of the Dutch consumer electronics giant, Rudy Provoost, has changed its focus from technology to being 'a lifestyle business'.
• Whitehall must learn from Estonia's e-government
  Michael Cross: "E-government" has entered the chattering class's lexicon. "E-government? Isn't that what they call the town council in Yorkshire?" one of the wags on Radio Four's News Quiz quipped last week.
• How probing cells could help cancer patients' treatment
  A new device being trialled could make sure that gruelling chemotherapy will actually work before people are subjected to it.
• Will working from home save the planet - or just employers' costs?
  Homeworking can indeed be good for the environment, according to a report from a team at Oxford University - but only if it is done in "a planned and managed way".
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