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| Crashes and booms |
| Can they be predicted? Roger Highfield investigates |
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might be forgiven for wondering if the best way to invest
in stock markets is to consult a chimpanzee first ? it
has long been suspected that City hotshots are just lucky,
overpaid fools who work in an industry where chance rules.... |
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| Hunting wiped out elephant kin |
| A study of 41 archaeological sites across five continents has provided the strongest evidence yet that humans hunted elephants to extinction, with hab
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| Species called ?hope of life? |
| Three years ago, a French-led team of palaeoanthropologists reported finding in central Africa a skull and other bones of a possible human ancestor th
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| Subtle connections |
| I the world of modern mathematics, Peter D. Lax, professor emeritus at New York University, ranks among the giants.
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| Plug and print |
It?s not unusual for business travelers to carry a laptop, a BlackBerry or an organiser, but few carry printers. Nonetheless, being on the road doesn?t mean you won?t need hard copy. ... | Read..
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| QED: Doctors? best friend
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According to a story in the last week?s British Medical Journal, a doctor interacts with 200,000 patients on an average during a 40-year career, and yet very few of those in medical profession are good at communicating with the patients. Medica
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The only medicine for your comfort
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RESTLESS NIGHTS
Peretz Lavie
Yale University Press; $ 27.50 ... | Read.. |
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I started life as a skinny kid, and my Russian-born grandmother did her best to fatten me up, feeding me bars of cheese, cans of evaporated milk, even sticks of butter. In her day, a slender child was vulnerable to death should a serious infectious d ... | 
