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| Face/lift |
| An expert is ready for an ambitious transplant surgery. Michael Mason reports |
| In an emergency room at a Finnish hospital, a man sprawled unconscious on an operating table as surgeons laboured to reattach the hand he had lost hours earlier while chopping wood.... |
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| An Indian doctor’s triumph |
| The world’s first full-face replant surgery was unwittingly accomplished by a plastic surgeon in India, 11 years ago. The face and scalp (see pic
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| A Step into The unknown |
| The Cleveland Clinic is the first institution to approve of facial tissue transplants from a cadaver
to a patient whose face has been severely disfigured by
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| A radical solution |
What’s the best-selling piece of personal electronics on earth? What’s more popular than computers, camcorders, digital cameras or even iPods? It’s the cell phone. Cell phone sales dwarf everything else. According to the Gartner resear ... | Read..
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| QED: Stigma of a lifestyle
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Stigmatisation and discrimination of specific groups of people, and India’s policymakers’ denial on widepread HIV infection, have kept the real picture of AIDS pandemic in this country under wraps. A recent exhibition of photographs by a Bri
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Ups and downs of weather watching
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Predicting the weather
Katharine Anderson
University of Chicago Press; $25... |
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On the surface, it makes all the sense in the world: Since fruits, vegetables, and fish contain loads of healthy nutrients, why not isolate those vitamins, put them in pills, and gobble them up? And wouldn’t more be better? Then we could just sk ... | 
