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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| Caught in the act |
| Experts are investigating starbursts ' to understand the fate of the cosmos. Dennis Overbye reports |
| Once a second or so, somewhere in the universe, a star blows itself to smithereens, blossoming momentarily to a brilliance greater than a billion suns. Nobody understands how these events, among the most violent in nature, actually happen. But, until recently, that didn't much matter unless you were a practitioner of the arcane and messy branch of science known as nuclear astrophysics. Lately, however, supernovas have become signal events in the life of the cosmos, as told by modern science... | Read.. |
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| Honeymoon on moon |
| They call it the eighth unexplored continent, a piece of real estate in the solar system ... | Read.. |
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| Desktop wonders |
 Ten years ago, the personal computer was a sturdy yet expensive appliance with a few megabytes of memory that could be useful for making spreadsheets and browsing that newfangled thing called the World Wide Web. Today, the home computer has morphed i ... | Read.. |
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| QED: Vaccines' seamy side |
 Public opinion has been able to achieve in the US what we in India or other developing countries would not dare dream of. After Iowa, the state of California has passed a legislation to ban the use of toxic mercury in vaccines. Henceforth, chil ... | Read.. |
| Recommended: Juice that fuels human beings |
| FIVE QUARTS: NATURAL HISTORY OF BLOOD; BILL HAYES BALLANTINE; $23.95 ... | Read.. |
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Active people know the feeling all too well: a stiff and achy sensation in the muscles that sneaks up on the body 24 hours or more after, say, a hard run, a challenging weight lifting session or the first day back on the ski slopes. ... | 
