Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Ecological hazards of the war on Iraq
 The black cloud of burning oil drains mixed with a desert sandstorm to enfold Kuwait city in an unearthly glow. Even today 12 years after the Gulf War, Kuwait is still...
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BYTEBACK
 Multiple queriesPlease help me with the following: 1. I am using dual operating systems, Windows 98 and Win XP on different partitions. Can I also install Linux Mandrakes 9 on my machine?...
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What Dreamweaver MX can do for your e-shop
 It is a famous saying among web mongers that “it is either e-business or out of business.” In this Information Age, almost every aspect of our life is getting hooked up...
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WEBWATCH
 It is possibly the best web resource for information about the solar system. It provides an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge....
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Perilous journey into a black hole
 It’s a place where time and space are curved infinitely, and matter is crushed to infinite density to a point called singularity. From this “event horizon”, which has no surface, light...
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Is Lindows a good choice for Windows users?
 Amid much controversy and tall claims, Lindows operating system was eventually launched late last year. Right from the word go, Lindows aimed at putting an end to the long held supremacy...
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Lindows: worthy opponent or Microsoft wannabe?
 I presume that many of you are proposing Lindows as a free software alternative to MS Windows. Please ignore the rest of this article if you consider this assumption as incorrect....
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How IT works for you
 Almost everyone in our information society needs a basic understanding of what a computer is and what can it do for you. These bits of information will simulate your imagination,...
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Antibiotic resistance: the challenges ahead
 They are so tiny that you cannot see them with the naked eye, yet nature has provided them with awesome power....
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TECH UPDATE
Iomega Corp, known for its Zip drive storage device, hopes its next effort is as popular. The vendor has jumped into the network-attached storage market with low-priced products that offer high-end enterprise features....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
Scientists have completed the finished sequence of the human genome, or genetic blueprint of life, which holds the keys to transforming medicine and understanding disease....
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NEWSBITS
The biggest digital camera ever installed on a telescope has begun work, taking spectacular and scientifically rich images of the Universe....
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Date palm fruit-borer outbreak in Sindh
 Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is considered to be one of the oldest fruit trees cultivated in the history of the world. It may be claimed that if the date palm had...
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COOL GADGETS
 Acer’s TravelMate C110 is the world’s first Centrino-based Tablet PC. At 26.4cm the device closely conforms to the Centrino standard with a Pentium M processor, 855GM chipset and 802.11b wireless connectivity....
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