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31 July 2008
Dear New Scientist Reader, welcome to the New Scientist newsletter, which this week reveals how social scientists could rescue athletics from doping, why wheelchairs might not help spinal cord patients, and why antimatter and matter don't always go boom...
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Will the Beijing Olympics repeat the sad experience of Athens 2004, when a record 24 athletes were expelled for doping? Chinese officials must be hoping not, but the latest evidence suggests otherwise. Despite even more testing, the proportion of positive results shows no sign of dropping, so the authorities are turning to social science to identify new approaches...MORE
 

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