Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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The violation of personal space
 REMEMBER the aphorism “curiosity killed the cat?” As children, we were told that being needlessly curious doesn’t really pay. If anything, it only confounds your misery once you are older, and...
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BYTEBACK
 ‘Unsafe’ attachments
QUESTION: I have Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise Edition on my system. My Outlook Express does not show any pictures,...
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Man lives beyond his means
AS MANY as 60 per cent of the life-supporting ecosystems are being degraded. And the degradation may actually get worse over the next 50 years....
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Battle for the black hole
 IN THE 1930s the rarefied world of science was ripped apart by a controversy that was to have devastating consequences for the development of astrophysics. It began when an Indian student...
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It’s about time
 MANY of us have the notion that time is not definable even when our lives revolve around it. As time cannot be seen or touched and its effects cannot be felt...
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How internet has changed life
 THE ALARM buzzed shrilly and woke me up from my sweet dreams of fame and glory. I sat up in bed, and then got out reluctantly. Half asleep, I went to...
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WEBWATCH
 Online explorations are fun and this site opens for you an interactive way to explore galaxies, black holes, comets and other fascinating objects....
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Learn to self-publish
 Those of you in advertising and publishing will recall previous publication programs that had a traditional white box on screen called “page” with dotted boundaries in which a user could type...
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Learn about DSL
 MANY of us now get connected to the internet without using a phone line and without getting our parents to yell at us for blocking their means of communications. We do...
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Of old age and all that
EXTREME old age, at least viewed from the perspective of young or vigorous middle age, is not an attractive prospect. The successes of twentieth century medicine have created a paradoxical situation,...
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Debate lives on but Schiavo doesn’t
IF IT were in the Netherlands, Belgium or Switzerland, it would be legal hence common — not news. And if it were in countries where healthcare is unevenly distributed, if available...
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Rs300m project for clean water
THE government has embarked upon a Rs300 million project aimed at the provision of clean drinking water....
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Where to blog?
 WEBLOGS are a new form of web publishing and communication, comparable to e-mail or instant messaging. A growing number of start-up companies are doing whatever they can to popularize blogging, with...
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COOL GADGETS
 INDIUM’S LED torch is a small and powerful light source that has no moving parts but two touch-sensitive switches....
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