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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| Back to the beginning |
| Experts gather in the city to discuss what happened immediately after the Big Bang. Pathik Guha reports |
| Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg provided scientists with a wonderful credo by commenting that 'the effort to understand the Universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.' One has only to see the experts in action to realise how difficult those efforts can be. For example, nearly 300 of them from all over the world will gather at the joint campus of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre ... | Read.. |
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| Think like einstein |
| Albert Einstein's achievements in his annus mirabilis a hundred years ago ... | Read.. |
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| Complex machine |
 Whoever said “technology marches on” must have been kidding. Technology doesn’t march; it sprints, dashes and zooms. That relentless pace renders our storage media obsolete with appalling speed: 5 1/4-inch floppies, zip discs or whatever ... | Read.. |
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| QED: Leprosy, an enigma |
 The 'last mile' in the race to eradicate leprosy may not be truly so. Public health experts have said that the goal is now within reach in India. At a meeting, organised by the International Leprosy Union (ILU) in New Delhi last week, experts once aga ... | Read.. |
| Recommended: Animal clue to autistic mind |
ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION
Temple Grandin
Scribner; $ 25 ... | Read.. |
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Why Corner |
| Why does a slice of apple turn reddish' |
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Nathan Rowman was in his late 80s when he was hospitalised for a suspected heart problem. Seemingly overnight, Rowman, who had been running his own business and going to work every day, became so confused that his children considered putting him in a ... | 
