Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Now, watch out for a tsunami
 PAKISTAN suffered heavily at the hands of the Oct 8 earthquake. Prior to this seismic event, the Quetta quake of 1935 was the country’s worst. However, it is felt that in the post-seismic period Pakistan should not neglect the coastal region....
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Sustainable rebuilding efforts
 HIS BIGGEST worry these days is how to ensure that the government is not misled by people trying to make money out of reconstruction efforts — now under way for the survivors of the Oct 8 earthquake....
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Information at your fingertips
 BECAUSE of their increasing popularity, websites have started to play a crucial role in the relief efforts launched in the wake of the recent earthquake in South Asia....
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Sparks that signal the shock
THE EARTH’S surface is a jigsaw of tectonic plates, each a slab of rock hundreds of kilometres across. Pressure builds up in the fault lines between these plates, and when a section slips suddenly the result is an earthquake....
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The sum of all fears
 ONE OF the ways people comfort themselves after natural disasters like the Asian tsunami is with the thought that, because such events are rare, it will be a long time before there is another one....
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Spammers vs stoppers
 WHAT COULD be worse than to open your mailbox and find it cluttered with spam mail? However, you are not alone in facing the bombardment of unsolicited mail....
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Webwatch
 This website is a ‘must-bookmark’ for all mathematics buffs. The site features an interesting, in-depth collection of mathematical information categorized neatly into algebra, geometry, statistics, number theory and so on. Within each sub-section, there are several related pages...
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Cutting out sleaze
IN AN increasingly open and accessible world, parents are often advised to monitor their children’s surfing habits. The tool we will discuss today was made for this purpose, that is, restricting access to objectionable online material....
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Learn about biogas
 ENERGY IS one of the basic necessities of humans. We need energy in its various forms and various theories have been propounded and experiments conducted for the proper consumption, production and preservation of energy....
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WSIS ends with a whimper
 THE World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) concluded last week with claims of success by the United Nations, participating governments and the private sector, but the civil society refused to wholeheartedly embrace its outcome....
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NGOs express disappointment
CIVIL SOCIETY groups reacted with disappointment at the decision to leave control of the internet in the hands of the United States....
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You can make a difference
After the publication of two articles on seismic precursors in Sci-tech World — the first one on Oct 22 and the other on Oct 29 — many readers told us that...
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Bird flu in humans confirmed
BEIJING CONFIRMED its first human cases of avian flu last week, shortly after the Chinese government announced plans for possibly the biggest vaccination campaign in global history covering the country’s entire poultry stock of 14 billion....
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Wind power to supply 5pc of country’s energy
PAKISTAN WILL generate up to five per cent of its total energy needs using wind energy in the next five to 10 years. The country has the potential of producing 50,000MW of energy in this fashion....
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The ‘frandship’ mania
 “OH NO, not again.” I grit my teeth and click my mouse on the ‘No’ button, to decline one of the many invitations sent my way recently....
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Cool gadgets
 this Sony cyber-shot dsc-17 may look slimmer than a pack of cards, but actually holds 5.1 megapixels, an internal Carl Zeiss 3x optical zoom and a crisp 2.5-inch...
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Byteback
 QUESTION: Many of the program files in my system have become infected with a virus called Jeefo. I tried to repair my files, but Norton Anti-virus says it cannot do so. What can I do to repair the damage?...
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ITeaser
Think your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this ITeaser and find out for sure:...
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