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Pakistan: home of ancient whales
 FOSSILIZED remains of ancient whales have been found in the United States, Egypt, Nigeria and India. However, more discoveries involving ancient whales have been made in Pakistan than in any of...
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BYTEBACK
 Messenger trouble
QUESTION: My MSN Messenger does not sign in and gives the following message: “you must install a newer version in order to continue....
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Theories, or flights of imagination?
 “ THE American philosopher Charles Sanders Pierce somewhere remarked that unfortunately universes are not as plentiful as blackberries. One of the most astonishing of recent trends in science is that many...
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Dealing with a threat
 A KEY challenge for policymakers interested in poverty alleviation is the identification and promotion of broad-based income opportunities that may lead to well-being. Such possibilities are, unfortunately, limited....
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Science lessons
 WHAT is the one thing everyone should learn about science? A London-based online publication — spiked — put the important question to 250 scientists. Here are some of the most provocative...
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Cohesive architecture
 A lot has been written about the new software paradigm, namely “web services,” in these pages. To recap, web services allow organizations to interact with each others’ systems on deterministic levels,...
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WEBWATCH
 This is yet another interesting and highly informative site by Nasa, which focuses on a current project being carried out near the Arctic circle. This project aims at testing, on Earth, conditions which may exist on Mars....
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Visually appealing
 MS Visio 2003 is largely used for networking and process flow diagrams, both for students and professionals. But Visio can do a lot more than just that, as the 2003 version...
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More about the digestive system
 The human body is a wonderful and complex mechanism. It performs various functions within a matter of minutes, one of which is digestion....
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Shortage forces a rethink
SUGAR cane requires 80 to 90 acre-inches of water in Sindh and about 64 acre-inches of water in Punjab. Water is crucial to the crop, but it is a scarce resource....
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Dream may come true
For more than fifty years now, scientists have been trying to control and contain the power of nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion — also known as thermonuclear reaction — is responsible for...
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Chinese PM sees ‘Asian century’
THE Chinese premier toured India’s hi-tech capital during his recent visit to India and called for closer cooperation between New Delhi and Beijing to launch an “Asian century” of information technology....
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Boarding the e-learning express
 As THE nineties drew to a close, the decline of the dot-com era forced corporations to look at their expenses. Companies that grew steadily, were struggling to survive all of a...
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COOL GADGETS
 SAMSUNG unveiled its third satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting phones, SCH-B200, last week...
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