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Tasman Spirit still haunts us
 Pakistan witnessed the worst environmental disaster in its chequered history after a 24-year-old, single-hull tanker registered in Greece — the MT Tasman...
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Byteback
 EDITOR’S REPLY: You can try Adobe Premiere or ULead Video Studio available from the local CD shops. You can also use WinMPG...
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Environment: Legacy of Tasman Spirit
 WHEN MOST of us think about oil, we tend to think about furnace oil and about gasoline and diesel which keep our cars and trucks....
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Special report: How the war was won
 UP TO 140,000 people are thought to have been killed when an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945....
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Special report: Atom bomb, Einstein and me
 HE IS the greatest scientist that ever existed in the world. However, I became involved with Einstein not as a scientist, but as a pacifist. He inspired me very....
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A chronology of controversies
DESPITE THE horrors brought about by the atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago, the United States proceeded to invest heavily in the production of nuclear weapons....
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Geekworld: Website wizardry
 Today, practically anybody can develop HTML websites because of the wide variety of user-friendly software available in the market. However, web designing is not just copying and....
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Webwatch
 This website has totally eliminated the need to spend hours in the library, laboriously poring over pages of an encyclopaedia. The online chemistry encyclopaedia features...
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Tips and tricks: Fetching emails
When using ISP-based or corporate email services, users are often seeking (asking peers) the address of the POP3 server, which has to be set in email clients like Outlook, Incredi-Mail and Eudora....
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Nitty-gritty: Learn about nanotubes
 Nanotechnology has led to the discovery of a cylindrical fullerene (carbon-only compounds) known as Carbon Nanotube (CNT). This is a....
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Wind energy: Full speed ahead
 The ADVISER to the chief minister on environment and alternate energy recently disclosed that a windmill power project would be launched in Gharo at an initial cost of $875 million, in...
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Global update: First cloned dog a surprising success
Researchers in South Korea have produced the first cloned dog — a frisky Afghan hound puppy — in a scientifically daunting feat eagerly anticipated by....
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National scene: Agreement for producing citric acid signed
A MEMORANDUM of Understanding (MoU) was signed earlier this week by the Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), the National Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic...
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Downplaying is dangerous
 There have been several oil spills but none so close to human settlements as the one involving MT Tasman Spirit, which took place in mid-August 2003....
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In the end...: The blogging brigade
 Why do people blog? This question has been posted on blog-related websites and has been the topic of discussions and theme of many blog entries.....
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Cool gadgets
 CASIO’s EXILIM ZOOM EX-Z500 is a five-megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom. The battery life is exceptionally long — up to 500 shots on a single charge...
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