April 15, 2004

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Changing attitudes Pandemonium reigns at the neurology ward at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital (JPMC). Sitting amid dozens of other patients at the outpatients department is Kiran, who is there with her husband Saleem....		Bioscience frontiers We are now in the midst of a bio-technological revolution. The American molecular biologist, Craig Ventor, and his colleagues at Celera Genomics in the US have sequenced the human genome...
Rwanda revisited Ten years ago, I listened to the gunfire outside my house in Kigali and wondered if I would survive. A plane carrying the Rwandan president, Juvinal Habyarimana, had been shot down and I dared not imagine the consequences....		Begging for mercy Asma is a seven-year-old Pathan girl who lives on Masan road in Karachi, but everyday goes to the Schon Circle in Clifton, to beg. She is pretty vivacious and has an engaging smile....
Targeting trees On the nights of November 1 and 2 last year, a crime was committed that went unnoticed. Across the road from a large hotel on Karachi’s Sharae Faisal...		Caged up lives They flutter helplessly in a small cage, their beaks plucking at each other’s feathers in utter frustration as they try to look for escape....
Beauty parlour blues If life is a battle, then men and women play it in different arenas. Men prefer to duke it out amongst each other in places like boardroom and sports field, while women show their competitive edge in the areas of child-rearing and relationships....		Getting it right, the first time Most first time mothers view pregnancy as a nightmare. The thought of nine long months and the various physiological and psychological changes that are part and parcel of the pregnancy, fills many hearts with apprehension and fear....
The pen is mightier than the sword There is a notion in some circles in Pakistan that in order to modernize our educational system, among other things, it will also have to be secularized....		Who let the dogs out? An encounter with pye-dogs can leave you unsettled, writes Mohsin Maqbool Elahi...
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK Memento meets Groundhog Day in 50 First Dates. Drew Barrymore plays Lucy, a victim of short-term memory loss who wakes up to relive the same day everyday over and over again because she still thinks it’s the day of the accident that caused her condition....		Icy treats Choco-Banana Chiller Ingredients: 1 cup fresh milk 1cup cocoa powder 2 bananas (peeled)...