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Issue 7
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Issue date: 
January 1999

Are you interested in boomerangs? In this issue we explain how to make your own boomerang at look at some of the physics that make boomerangs work. Is a boomerang really a kind of gyroscope? And what are gyroscopes? Besides, we look at the history of mathematical proof.

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