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| A disease called murder |
| Why? Because it kills 90 per cent of the victims. Denise Grady reports |
| Traditional healers say
their grandmothers knew of a bleeding disease similar to the epidemic of haemorrhagic
fever that has killed 244 of the 266 people who contracted it. The grandmothers
even had a treatment for the sickness, the healers told Dr Boris I. Pavlin of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the remedy has been lost.
The old disease was called kifumbe (pronounced key-FOOM-bay), the word in the
Kikongo language for murder ... | Read.. |
| A bar in milky way |
| There may not be a restaurant
at the end of the Universe, but there seems to be a bar in our Milky Way,’’
— that’s how Leo Blitz, an astronomer from Berkeley (then at Maryland),
concluded his talk at a meeting of American astronomers 15 years ago. He and his
collaborators had analysed the motion of stars near the centre of the Milky Way
and found hints of irregularities in their movements ... | Read.. |
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| ISRO setting its targets high |
| From a humble beginning
of guesswork to launching of a sophisticated space vehicle like Discovery, observational
astronomy has come a long way, said Prof. U.R. Rao, former chairman, Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO), while delivering a lecture on ‘The Ascent of
Astronomy and Indian Space Programme’ ... | Read.. |
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| Girls’ imagination |
Judy Shackelford, who has been in the toy industry for more than 40 years, has
seen a lot of dolls. But none, she says, like her latest creation, a marvel of
digital technologies, including speech-recognition and memory chips... |
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| QED: Effect only in mind
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Last week, when the medical journal Lancet announced that homoeopathy has an effect only in the mind and has no curative powers whatsoever, it didn’t surprise the world of science at all.
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| Recommended:
Age makes brain smarter
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The wisdom paradox
Elkhonon Goldberg
Free Press; ? 12.99... | Read.. |
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The furore over the painkiller Vioxx (see box) has highlighted just how little we know about the contents of our medicine cabinets, and how much we take painkillers for granted. ... | 
