Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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The never-ending battle
 From the day we are born until the time we die, a never-ending battle rages between the body and the invading parasite. In ancient times, the battle generally....
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Byteback
 QUESTION: I am using Yahoo! Messenger 7.0 on WindowsXP ServiceP2 and use a corporate Link (E1) to connect to the web through a proxy with port 8080...
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Parched Pakistan worse off than Ethiopia
 Can the ominous warning by weather experts of an impending drought in Sindh and Balochistan be attributed to divine intervention so that governments...
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The origin of HIV pandemic
 Scientists searching for the origin of HIV, the global pandemic infecting more than 40 million people, believe they have finally tracked its original source to two colonies....
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Anti-HIV drugs of the herbal type
For thousands of years herbs have been used as medicine by cultures all over the world. Today, a large variety of indigenous medicinal plants have been shown....
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Playing a different tune
 Imagine that you are working over a perfectly secure network with nobody in the middle, no key loggers, sniffers or any other sort of spyware over the local....
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Webwatch
 If mathematics is one subject you cannot grasp, log on to this website to clear your concepts. The site features lots of sample problems and their solutions...
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Idea that transformed emails
Traditionally, email was sent and received in data form. But now a new email client named Social Relationship and Network Finder, or SNARF, by Microsoft...
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The clown of all gases
 The unique property of nitrous oxide is that when it is inhaled in a large enough quantity, it results in an outburst of uncontrollable laughter, besides hallucinations....
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Plumes of discovery
 One of Saturn’s innermost moons, Enceladus, has been added to the small list of terrestrial bodies in our own solar system that may support life. Scientists are keenly...
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Dust clouds transport bacteria
Giant clouds of dust whipped up by desert storms in Africa can carry infectious organisms to other continents, scientists claimed recently....
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Yields of major crops declining
Yields of several major crops, including cash crops like cotton and sugarcane, declined during 2005-06 against production figures for last year, reducing total farm....
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Cool gadgets
 Nokia 7380 is a state-of-the-art 2-megapixel camera phone with Bluetooth and comes in shades of neutral colours. The front of the phone is mostly mirror with scroll wheels...
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The never-ending bane
 Feast your eyes on the following, copied verbatim from a few scrapbooks around the popular social networking website, Orkut http:// www.orkut.com....
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