Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Health environmental uplift versus poverty alleviation in Thar
 RECENTLY, more than 175 billion tons of coal reserves have been discovered in Thar region. Development of the coal industry will bring major socio-economic uplift alongwith environmental complexities as well in...
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Working with virtual multiple operating systems and apps
 MOST operating systems today are very easy to instal but what if you have only one machine and you don’t want go through hassles of re-partitioning disks. This makes you...
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Webwatch
 A pioneer in modern frog research, the American Museum of Natural History offers one of the largest frog collections for you to see online. From this sticky site, you will learn some of the more bizarre ways these hoppers propagate, about their vocal chords, and how their sounds can vary as much as their hues. Surprisingly, only half of frog species reproduce via....
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I-Terms
pioneer in modern frog research, the American Museum of Natural History offers one of the largest frog collections for you to see online. From this sticky site, you will learn some of the more bizarre ways these hoppers propagate, about their vocal chords, and how their sounds can vary as much as their hues....
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Is Mercury shrinking?
 MERCURY, the small world near the very core of the solar system poses many riddles and mysteries for scientists and researchers. One of these mysteries being that the planet might be...
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What is fanning the flames?
 INFLAMMATION is known as the response to cell injury that involves dilatation of small blood vessels, redness, warmth, pain, and migration of white blood cells to the region as part of...
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Destination: XP service Pack 2
 UNTIL last year, software giant Microsoft was singing an entirely different tune for it’s much awaited Service Pack 2 release for the Windows XP operating system. Back then, the plan was...
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Anti-piracy units wipe out net crime syndicate
 A SERIES of recent countywide raids conducted by the police and trading officers have disabled a massive, organised crime piracy syndicate in the United Kingdom....
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New HP products launched
 BUSINESS desktop PCs, notebooks, hand-held devices, colour Laserjet and Designjet printers, Scanjet scanner, Officejet all-in-one devices, Proliant servers and storage work arrays have been launched by Hewlett-Packard in Karachi on August...
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Next version of Windows set for 2006
 MICROSOFT said it plans to broadly release the long-awaited update to its flagship Windows operating system, dubbed “Longhorn,” in 2006....
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‘Super Earth’ discovered at nearby star
 IN a discovery that has left one expert stunned, European astronomers have found one of the smallest planets known outside our solar system, a world about 14 times the mass of...
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‘More time needed to formulate biosafety rules’
PAKISTAN needs more time and aggressive consultations before notifying bio safety rules due to their far- reaching impact on its biodiversity and ecology....
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PC gamers strike back
 THIS is in reply to Haider Javed’s article in the previous issue of Sci-tech World. I too am a gamer and have been playing videogames for as long as I can...
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‘Performance and merit alone can make Pakistan’
 TODAY’S youth hold the greatest promise for the future of Pakistan. The technical manpower trained in the 60s made Pakistan a nuclear power and the students of the 90s earned Islamabad...
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Byteback
 Outlook Express backup Please answer these questions: 1. How can we transfer a message received in the Inbox of Outlook Express in Win98 to the Inbox of Outlook Express in WinXP, both versions of Windows existing on different partitions of the same hard disk...
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Cool gadgets
 CREATIVE MuVo is a portable music storage unit that can hold four to five hours in its 256 MB of memory. It allows you to record voices, connects via a USB 2.0 port (fast) and has a built-in FM tuner to boot. It runs on one AAA battery ...
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