• On the night watch

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• Huge international effort to clean up coal

  A major research initiative is targeting carbon dioxide and acid rain caused by coal burning, writes Dick Ahlstrom p
  

• How spuds can keep you healthy

  Eating potatoes can reduce irritable bowel syndrome and may also lessen the incidence of bowel cancer, writes Dr Marina Murphy p
  

• Why companies lose best employees due to workplace boredom

  Under the Microscope: Asked to think of boring work, most people would imagine intellectually undemanding repetitive work such as on the assembly line or at the supermarket checkout. However, job boredom is now reported in a wide range of jobs, well beyond the mechanised jobs traditionally associated with boredom. p
  

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