Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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The whole truth about bird flu
 It’s an early morning in Karachi. As a poultry farmer gets up and goes to his flock, he sees some of the birds gasping. Their heads are swollen, legs thave turned...
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BYTEBACK
 Favourites mystery1. During last few days I am getting some offensively indecent entries creeping into my internet favorites. Is it because of some virus? How can I remove it...
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Launch your own website in minutes
 After connecting to internet, most users wish to have their presence on the net too. The easiest way is to create your own website, since internet has become an easy-to-use and...
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WEBWATCH
 Object Central, founded by Dr. Bruce E. Wampler, to advance object-oriented programming, provides you with good information about object-oriented (OO) programming and available OO resources...
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Groundnut: a new crop in the Nara canal belt
 The climatic condition of a region affects the agricultural cropping pattern and different areas, thus, produce different crops. Amongst a host of climatic factors, rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind velocity, duration of...
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Information or moral highway?
 Pornography on internet is a new king of plague that has spread all over the world. It is seamlessly tearing apart the fabrics of societies, visibly corrupting the public morals and...
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Is Linux right for you?
 Some years ago, a Unix-like operating system called “Linux” first surfaced on the computing scene. Dubbed as the “Next Big Thing” in the industry, Linux soon became a pragmatic alternative to...
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The extraterrestrial spies
 Now that humans have sent probes successfully to another planet to discover its secrets, could any extraterrestrial civilization have done the same thing? Sent intelligent, sophisticated probes to spy on Earth?...
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TECH UPDATE
Microsoft has admitted that parts of the source code, or software blueprint, for its closely-guarded Windows programs had leaked onto internet, possibly exposing its products to hackers and illicit copying....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
South Korean scientists have created cloned human embryos to generate stem cells, touted as the miracle material that may one day reverse diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s and other disorders....
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NEWSBITS
Science and technology are the essential ingredients for the progress of a country, and that is the reason why more youngsters should go for making their career in these fields...
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NATIONAL SCI-TECH SCENE
Scientists say the marine ecosystem adversely affected due to the massive crude oil spill from the grounded oil tanker Tasman Spirit...
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How safe is poultry?
 Claims made by the health authorities and poultry associations may be confusing and short of telling the whole truth, but the scientific fact remains that cooked chicken meat is safe for...
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COOL GADGETS
 Matsushita Electric Industrial introduced a new portable MD audio system “SJ-MR270” that includes an MD recorder/player, compact stereo speakers and a cradle unit, which makes it possible to download digital music contents from internet or PC....
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