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| Profound ignorance |
| Physicists take stock of unsolved puzzles. Dennis Overbye reports |
| Fresh from a new Nobel prize, with a smile as wide as the Pacific Ocean only a frisbee throw away, Dr David Gross stood with a microphone on a stage at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics here... |
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| Fire from leftovers |
| At Pune?s Kimaya restaurant, leftovers don?t join the municipal garbage stream.
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| Wind power isn?t safe |
| Wind turbines have been hailed as an environmentally friendly way to reduce the
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| For quieter skies |
Noise nuisance from aircrafts can be reduced to a great extent ? to the point it becomes barely inaudible to people living nearby airports ? just by embedding the engines into the body of crafts rather than underneath, an international research conso ... | Read..
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| QED: Patience required
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The US presidential election extravaganza is over. But it has left a scar on the
technology front. Electronic voting machines used in the election, critics say,
have threatened to undermine trust in democracy, because they are vulnerable to
security b ... | Read.. |
| Recommended:
Untold story of the computer
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JACQUARD?S WEB
JAMES ESSINGER
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; ?14.99 ... | Read.. |
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It happened without warning, early one day last summer as they prepared to go out. Gloria Rapport?s husband raised his arm to her, fist poised. ?He was very close to striking me,? she said. What had provoked him? ?Nothing, I asked him to get in the c ... | 
