May 22, 2004
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Hi kids!
 Summer vacations are just round the corner. Another week or ten days and all schools will close for two months. For some of you who are through with exams, vacations have...
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Cover Story: The Younger Generation
 “If you want to live for hundreds of years, cultivate rice and if you want to live thousands of years, build up your younger generation,” so goes a Chinese saying. Young...
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Story Time: The real love
 “What’s the matter, Maha?” Aisha asked, sitting down beside her at the college canteen....
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Story Time: The realization
 Jia belonged to a middle-class family, although her parents were not well-to-do, still they tried to give everything they could to all their three children, specially good education. As Jia was...
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Story Time: The chick who ran away
 One fine, sunny day, Chuck the chick woke up, feeling bored to death. After cleaning up, he wandered into the kitchen, where Mrs Hen was making worm-stew for lunch. “Get out...
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Know your lunar eclipses
 Almost two weeks ago, a lunar eclipse was sighted all around the world. Though Pakistan rarely spots solar eclipses, lunar eclipses have been seen twice in the past year. This is...
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Feature: A minute for a mobile
 Nowadays everybody seems to be talking about mobiles, the latest models, the best features, the lowest price. But I’m not going to waste my breath writing about a mobile phone. I...
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Country Hopping: Venezuela
 Physical features Venezuela has four distinct geographic regions. In the north are the Venezuelan highlands, which include the country’s highest point, Bolivar Peak (16,427 feet)....
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Advantages of drinking water
 Water is a fundamental part of our lives. It is not easy to forget how completely we depend on it. Human survival depends on water. Water is extremely essential to life...
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Sports: Steffi Graf — the lady legend
 Often we look at high achievers and think: “wow, are they cool or what?”. But that’s not it. Behind all the achievements is a lot of hardwork and struggle; lots of...
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Book: Charlie and the chocolate factory
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, written by Roald Dahl, is an all-time favourite for kids....
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Music: The long road
 The big Canadian homegrown grunge-rock trio Nickelback (singer/guitarist Chad Kroeger, guitarist Mike and bassist Ryan Vikedal) is back again rocking on with their new hit video-single of Someday from their new...
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Web Site: Brain pop
 Www.brainpop.com is one of those sites which offer in-depth knowledge on various topics. The site provides excellent educational and entertaining stuff. It provides activities that make learning Science, Health, Social Studies,...
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On Air: Nok Jhonk
 Feeling cheesed off with the same boring stuff? Nok Jhonk the new pop music show provides you with all you want to see. The show is quite entertaining as both VJs, Maria and Asim, keep you in good...
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Our new home
 It’s been quite some time since I last opened you and wrote something on your smooth white pages. Your cover is a little messy since I haven’t opened you since we moved to our new home....
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The picturesque valleys
 About 365km from Peshawar, Chitral forms Pakistan’s northwestern border with Afghanistan, and is home to the precipitous mountains of the Hindukush. This range is different from the Himalayas and Karakorams, and since there are no...
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Weekly Update: Archaeologists trade shovels for georadar
SINJ, Croatia: In search of clues they believe could cast light on 10,000 years of Balkans history, archaeologists working in a key wetland along the Cetina river in southern Croatia have...
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Quotes
 In order to succeed we must first believe that we can. — Michael Korda Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. — Barry LePatner....
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Mail Box
 THIS is in response to the article by Kiran Abdul Aziz, (YW, May 15). I would like to say that in her article she is degrading matric students which is wrong. I myself have just done my matric and I also admit that my English is not so fluent but...
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Quiz: Of art and artists
 1. The word impressionism was coined after an exhibition held in Paris in 1874 for a painting by Claude Monet. Do you know the name of the painting? 2. Which was the only painting sold by Vincent Van Gogh during his lifetime...
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Briefs: Golfer bitten by crocodile
 KUALA LUMPUR: A golfer is suing a resort in Malaysia after a crocodile grabbed his leg and tried to drag him into a pond as he played the seventh hole, local...
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Poet''s Corner:
 Never leave me alone.My heart is sensitive My body is in fear of losing my soul If you will leave me alone My eyes fill with tears Never get dry...
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