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November 1, 2003

Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
This page is updated every Saturday.

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No place for pests in Bt cotton
Pakistan is the world’s fourth largest producer of cotton after China, the US and India. Till the end of August, cotton crop was in perfect condition in most part of the...
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BYTEBACK
Please answer these questions:
1. Recently I installed Windows Media Player 9 on my WindowsXP after installing VCD Power Player. Now when I try to run any media file Power Player...
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Myths about Visual C#
Java had enjoyed its supremacy in web application development for almost seven years. Main factor behind Java’s success was indeed its power to build application that could run on multiple platforms....
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WEBWATCH
Neuroscientists and psychologists are hard at work studying the anatomy of the teenage brain; on this site you’ll discover their discussions and findings....
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Back to the future: tachyons and time travel
There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was faster than light. She went out one day,In a relative way,And returned the previous night!— Reginald Buller ...
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Final destination: space or beyond
Dennis Tito described it as the “Ultimate adventure”. His gravity-breaking destination to space cost him millions but he was exuberant and delighted with his experience. Many of us would only wish...
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Celebrating a century of flight
On a cold windy day of December 17, 1903 the Wright Flyer rose above the sands of Kitty Hawk for a mere 12 seconds and covered 120 metres. But the four...
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What call centres are all about?
The definition of a call centre is continuously changing. Sometime called contact centre or customer interaction centre, basically “a call centre is a central place where customer and other telephone calls...
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TECH UPDATE: New operating system unwrapped
Microsoft Corp gave its most detailed look yet at the next version of Windows, code-named “Longhorn,” which promises new methods of storing files, tighter links to the Internet, greater security, and...
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SCIENCE UPDATE
New research released Wednesday showed airline flight crews had a higher than normal rate of skin and breast cancer....
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NEWSBITS
A contract was signed at Islamabad between the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited and ZhongXing Telecom Pakistan (pvt) Ltd (ZTE), for implementation of Optical Fibre...
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NATIONAL SCI-TECH SCENE
Over 80 per cent intermediate and degree colleges in Karachi are without internet facility. Interestingly, computer labs exist in various city intermediate colleges...
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Armyworm invasion: pressure shifted on late sown cotton
It is said that several years of high yields are associated with heavy rainfall coupled with high humidity. But contrary to it this year heavy rainfall has brought devastation to...
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COOL GADGETS
Sanyo unveils the new digital camera “Xacti DMX-C1”, equipped with a 3.34 mega-pixel CCD on its image sensor and a 5.8 —33.8mm/F3.5 — 3.7 zoom lens...
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