Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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‘Spirit’ roving on Mars
 WITH the rover “Spirit” safely landed on Mars and sending in the first view cards, scientists are anxiously waiting more information. They want to know, for instance, what the surrounding terrain...
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Speed your way as night rider
 CONTINUING the legendary racing Need for Speed (NFS) series, the Underground is a latest addition to the exciting world of speed to give you thrill of your life....
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Webwatch
 WHETHER you are an armchair paoleontologist or an experienced field collector, this free e-journal of avocational palentology is targeted at fossil fans and provides a huge collection of articles, covering everything from Mesozoic...
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Terms for computer junkies
PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Digitizer tablet: A graphics drawing tablet used for sketching new images or tracing old ones. The user makes contact with the tablet with a pen or puck (mistakenly called a mouse) that is either wireless or connected to the tablet by a wire....
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Spectre of armyworm haunts wheat crop in Sindh
 AMIDST press reports that the current wheat stock of Sindh, NWFP, and Balochistan will be exhausted by the end of February, and that Sindh is expected to face a...
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Are our net activities ethical?
 COMPUTERS, and the internet by extension, are powerful tools of communication and information. Some have abused these gizmos, while others seek to impose control in one way or another. It is...
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Securing your data with RAID solutions
 IN the not-so-distant past, the concept of data storage was pretty simple. You had a computer, you attached a hard disk to it, and you were done. However, over the period,...
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The future is now
 EVERY analyst and trend-watcher seems to be predicting the future of information technology (IT) these days. Given the exponential rate of developments in all the fields of IT activities, it is...
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Changes in Windows music feature in offing
MICROSOFT has agreed to make changes in its Windows XP operating system to satisfy government concerns that it steered users seeking online music to Microsoft’s web browser, officials said. The changes were made after objections were raised by US authorities monitoring Microsoft’s compliance with an antitrust...
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US doctor claims to have implanted cloned human embryo
 A US fertility specialist said he had implanted a cloned human embryo in a woman’s womb, reigniting controversy over attempts to create the world’s first cloned human....
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More IT education institutes needed: Leghari
FEDERAL Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunications Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari has said that Pakistan needs more educational institutions of high calibre to produce professionals capable of taking on the future...
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New rules on the anvil to award PhD, MPhil degrees
THE provincial education department is contemplating to impose some new conditions on private varsities and institutes conducting postgraduate research programmes....
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Unhygienic chicken meat a source of food-borne diseases
 IN the year 2000, it was estimated that the global incidence of food -borne diseases caused almost 2.1 million people to die, specially in the developing countries, from diarrhoeal diseases which...
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Byteback
 Correction THERE is a factual error in “Stem cell: an essential biotecnology tool” by Mr Ijaz Ahmad Rao (Sci-tech World: Jan 10). He mentions that the stem cell transplant was carried out in Karachi for the first time in Pakistan....
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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure: 1. The term used to act as gaining access to a computer system...
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Cool gadgets
 SONY unveils the world’s lightest and thinest hard-disk audio player Giga pavit, as the newly defined Aiwa brand, during a press preview in Tokyo. The new card, sized with 2GB HDD audio player, measures 91x56x10.6mm and weighs 68g. It enables...
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