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| Mission successful |
| Nobel laureate Abdus Salam?s dream comes true. Pathik Guha reports from Trieste, Italy |
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a cloudy October morning at the Milan airport. The bus
to ferry passengers to the aircraft for Alitalia’s
flight 1339 to Trieste is slowly getting filled up. “It
seems everybody is going to the ICTP,” says Panamalai
Ramrao Parthasarathy, mathematics professor at the IIT-Madras,
looking at the lot that’s boarding the bus. “Maybe
you’re right,” comments the gentleman sitting
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| Joycean connection |
| During the 1960s, science
enjoyed very good patronage in the industrialised world.
World War II had shown that it worked wonders and the
statesmen of those nations were convinced of the usefulness
and importance of fundamental studies ... |
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| Instant gratification |
It?s the latest in instant gratification. Like many other first-year law students at the University of Miami, Ashley Powell relies on instant messaging to reach her friends when they?re hiding out at places like the library. But unlike most of her ... | Read..
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| QED:
Dodging the ban
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Two words may well describe the process that Indian health authorities employ
to ban or not to ban drugs suspected to be harmful to humans: arbitrary and non-transparent.
Last week, 10 days after the pharmaceutical giant Merck had announced its volun
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Curious remedies and
weird anecdotes |
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STRANGE CASE OF THE WALKING CORPSE BY NANCY BUTCHER AVERY; $13.95 ... | Read.. |
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The death of Christopher Reeve illustrated something that those who live with paralysis know all too well: The challenges go far beyond the inability to walk. ?Walking is the least of it,? said Donna Jessinger, who is 43 and has been paralysed since ... | 
