Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Environmental management of world’s highest and biggest junkyard
 SIACHEN is a glacier, 76km by 32km, strategically located near the junction of Pakistani, Chinese and Indian frontiers. It acts as a ridge which is a dividing line between Indian Ladakh...
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Is HTML at a risk?
 EVEN though documents have been published over the global networks before Hyper Text Markup Language was even around, the ease that came with this language was bound to generate an overwhelming...
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Webwatch
 WHETHER you’re a novice or a professional, this site has something in store for you. Its ever-increasing range of tutorials includes everything web programming to general IT related issues. You will find tutorials ion Visual Basic, XML, ASP, C programming, OOPs, PERL, C++ programming, Java and Flash. It also runs a glossary...
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Pump up some IT vitamins
LOAD your brains with these frequenty used IT-terms. Jaz: It is a removable disk technology, introduced by Iomega, capable of storing approximately one gigabyte of information on a single disk. The disks themselves are a little over four inches square and about half an inch tall. If....
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Bt seeds for self-reliance in cotton
 COTTON is one of the world’s most popular fibers, accounting for around 45 per cent of the world’s fibre trade....
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Comprehending computers: can the masses in South Asia get a start?
 ABRAHAM is a four-years-old Indian child and is waiting to enter school. For him, the computer is a mysterious toy. He sees others around him operating the PC. “I too want...
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Can embryo destruction for research be justified
 WILLIAM Shakespeare said: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”...
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Middleware to connect different computing environments
 IBM on May 10 has outlined a new middleware software-based model that brings together web-based computing and traditional PC desktop environments....
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DNA robot steps forth
 THE US chemists have designed the world’s first two-footed molecular robot and taken it for a stroll in a lab dish, New Scientist reveals....
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IT ministry approves 14 projects
THE ministry of information technology has approved 14 projects worth over Rs300 million to automate different public sector organizations and departments including the National Assembly....
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Over Rs11m IT industry study project sanctioned
THE Federal Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari has approved a project worth Rs11.5 million to carry out a strategic study of the country’s information technology industry....
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Search keywords
 SEARCHING is a recurrent and compelling activity on the web, next only to emailing. More and more net users are opting for keyword searches to locate and retrieve the desired information....
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Byteback
 It is a general practice of the people that they agree the principles discovered by their predecessors. In this way, the real knowledge becomes elusive and resultantly we are deprived of the same. Once people used to believe that the earth was flat...
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Importance of bio-safety guidelines to control bio-weapons
THE federal cabinet has approved a draft bill proposing a complete ban on export of goods, technologies, material and equipment related to nuclear and biological weapons and their delivery systems. Last...
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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:...
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Cool gadgets
 THE latest Adidas shoe, called ‘1’, shown here, is equipped with a microprocessor capable of making five million calculations per second to adjust heel cushioning....
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