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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| Space capitalists |
| Thrillionaires give NASA a run for its money. John Schwartz reports |
| Paul G. Allen’s first foray into rocketry, as he recalls it, was inauspicious. “My cousin and I tried to build a rocket out of an aluminum armchair leg,” he said. At just 12 years old, the future billionaire raided his chemistry set for zinc and sulfur, and packed the fuel mixture int... | Read.. |
| You are younger than your age |
| Researchers have redefined what ageing means, so it is not how long you have been alive that counts but, rather, how many years you have got left. The ... | Read.. |
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| High on proteins |
| Who else, but the French would be asked to rustle up a menu for humans’ first dinner on Mars. Two French companies have developed 11 recipes for ... | Read.. |
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| Double advantage |
 It’s like killing two birds with one stone. The scientists at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, have developed a photoelectrocatalytic fuel cell (PECFC) ' a sunlight-driven technology ' to clean up pollutants found in the water supply and cr ... | Read.. |
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| QED: Fraud in labs |
 Once again the image of science has got tarnished. A study, published in Nature early this month, bares it all, saying that the white coat doesn’t guarantee a clean conscience. Scientists also misbehave, falsify, fabricate and plagiarise d ... | Read.. |
| Recommended: Scary profiles of biotech heroes |
GENETICISTS WHO PLAYED HOOPS WITH MY DNA
David Duncan; William Morrow, $25 ... | Read.. |
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When a celebrity writes about experiencing a health problem, especially an emotional disorder that severely disrupts feelings of self-confidence and competence, it is bound to receive considerable public attention. And so, I hope that Brooke Shields ... | 
