March 6, 2004
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 The beginning of March brings with it the reminder that exams are approaching. Some schools have their annual examinations in March/April and some in May. Matric, O’ Levels and Intermediate exams...
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Cover Story: Career options for the young nation
 Be it the popular Pakistani Matriculation or Inter-mediate stream or the selective British O/A Levels brand of education, parents embark on a tough and tedious exploration of career options at the...
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Junoon — for the love of music
 This writer went through an inexplicable hiatus in narrowing down to this Pakistani band of an international repute for the interview. A number of unanswered phone calls, messages like out of...
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Pakistan’s birth — 1947: The world and Pakistan through maps
 After the Second World War 1945, the British were inclined to give right to freedom to the people of the subcontinent, but were not in favour of the partition of India....
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Story Time: Would Neha keep her promise?
 One day Neha woke up a bit earlier than her usual time. She came downstairs and her maid informed Neha that her parent’s had gone to Lahore for some urgent work....
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Story Time: An autobiography of a rose
 Hi guys! I am a big, cool red rose .Wait! I feel somebody tickling me.Oh! It is a stupid bee sucking nectar from me. “Go away, go and get lost...
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Story Time: The cheat
 Faisal was a habitual cheat. He knew so many ways of cheating so he could easily pass any test with flying colours. Apart from being a cheat, he was very particular...
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Computers: Computer glossary
 To attain proficiency while working with computers you must know its basics, to learn the basics you are required to be aware of the important terms that are associated with this...
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Feature: No more exam phobia!
 “Examinations are a head-ache! My final exams are just around the corner and I haven’t studied a bit! Can you lend me your Chemistry notes of Chapter#3? I forgot to complete...
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Feature: Improving your memory
 I t is very difficult to retain anything easily and when we learn many things we are bound to forget at least something. So to make learning easy and enjoyable...
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Book: Daddy’s little girl
 Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twenty-one best-selling novels of the suspense, three collections of short stories, and with her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, is co-author of two Christmas novellas....
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Web Site: It’s all about radio!
 In the field of communications radio is one of the most powerful media. Radio makes people aware of what’s going on in the world and it provides us with great knowledge....
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In search of peace
 Dear Diary! Life had always been very harsh to me. Peace of mind was something for which I had searched for everywhere, but always remained unsuccessful in attaining it....
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Nuclear Proliferation
The World Set Free, 1914 We have all heard nuclear terminology often enough in our lives. We’ve heard talks about atomic bombs and nuclear testing and nuclear proliferation many-a-times. But what exactly do we mean by “nuclear weapons...
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Miscellanea: The whiz kid
 Very young, compu whiz, extremely intelligent, hardworking and adorable would best describe this wonder child. Almost every child normally by the age of eight start playing with computers but not every...
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Weekly Update: Girl found years after thought dead
PHILADELPHIA: A 6-year-old girl thought to have died in a fire as an infant has been found alive after being raised by a woman who may have set the blaze and...
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Quotes
 Aim at the stars for even if you fall short, you’ll land on the moon. — Anonymous The important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking part — the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well....
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Health Line: Smoking — dangerous to health
 Millions and millions of people know that smoking is believed to be harmful and even dangerous to health, yet millions and millions continue to smoke — or even ‘start’ smoking despite...
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Super Sis
 Dear Super Sis, I’m a student of second year. Although I am confident while speaking in English, my vocabulary is not very good, and it is the greatest deficiency in my life. As I belong to a strict family, I cannot go outside to learn English...
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Mail Box
 New generation Today’s generation gives more emphasis to reading and making a good name. Besides this, the thing that gives me great pleasure, is that the new generation is also aware of the hazards of...
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Quiz: Of abbreviations
 If a person has the initials F.R.C.V.S after his name, to what profession would he belong?...
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Briefs: Long haul expected in curbing avian flu
 GENEVA: The problem of avian flu will not be resolved in the near future, the World Health Organziation (WHO) predicted here on Tuesday, noting that the curbing of previous, much lesser...
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Riddles 1 — What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years? 2 — What is always coming but never arrives? 3 — What is everyone doing at the same time? 4 — Which mountain rests all the time...
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Poet''s Corner
 Loving someone Loving someone is nothing Except giving your heart away Sometimes you feel that you are flying in the air But then you recognize that it’s nothing but a dream...
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