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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| The X factor |
| The male-female divide is wider than even experts thought so far, reports Prasun Chaudhuri |
| Feminists are going gaga over the finding, triumphantly bubbling with an I-told-you-so air: Men really are the simple creatures they appear. Male chauvinists, too, haven't given up brushing aside the exuberant reaction, saying, 'We're right in branding females as different from [read inferior... | Read.. |
| Courtship game solves a puzzle |
| This is a copybook example of cooperative courtship. Subordinate wild turkeys help their dominant brothers find eager mates, rather than looking for t ... | Read.. |
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| Vampire bats' unique power |
| Bats lost the ability to run at least 60 million years ago, when their forelimbs became more adapted for flying. But a new study suggests that the Vam ... | Read.. |
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| Reason behind rhyme |
| Karl Mahlburg, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US, is very happy, for he has solved a puzzle that's 75 years old. We in ... | Read.. |
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| Swiss army knife |
 When Alan Lomax and his father, John, began making their famous field recordings of Southern folk singers in the 1930s, they had to build their 350-pound recording machine into the back of their Ford. It etched the songs of cowboys and former slaves ... | Read.. |
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| QED: What's a peer review' |
 Some of India's top doctors who claim they have used stem cells to treat patients with heart disease have got their work highlighted in the media before publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal. A research team at the All India Institute of Medi ... | Read.. |
| Recommended: The man who loved bombs |
EDWARD TELLER
Peter Goodchild
Harvard University Press; $29.95 ... | Read.. |
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Airplane cabins contain less oxygen per person than virtually any other public place. Passengers remain stationary for hours, inhaling and exhaling ' coughing and sneezing ' together. No wonder many of the 1 billion passengers worldwide travelling an ... | 
