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| Smartest virus |
| Bird flu is now an unmanageable menace. Keith Bradsher and Lawrence K. Altman report |
| A nine-year-old girl in
northern Thailand made an innocent mistake late in September, a show of industriousness
that should have impressed her family but killed her instead. Eleven of her family’s
13 chickens had fallen sick and died of avian influenza, so the girl’s mother
and grandmother killed the last two as a precaution, Thai health officials said.
Not realising that the healthy-looking birds could still be infectious, the girl
plucked the chickens and prepared them for cooking. She died at a Thai provincial
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| Himalayan hazard |
| The devastating earthquake rocking India’s northwestern border region focuses our attention to another danger zone in the east: Darjeeling.
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| New clues to class system |
| Carolus Linnaeus, 18th-century botanist and father of scientific naming, enjoyed the unusual status of international scientific hero. Celebrated as th
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| The ‘aha’ moment |
Every now and then, humanity wakes up, looks at itself in the mirror and realizes that it’s been wasting a lot of effort doing things the old way just for the sake of tradition. From the caveman who first put a bunch of rolling logs under someth ... | Read..
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| QED: Religions’ last refuge
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What’s meant by “In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth?” You are possibly guessing it right. Gone are the days when it was only available within a sombre black cover with a cross on it. Now there’s an SMS version of God
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| Recommended:
Architect of life, as well as death
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Between genius
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Daniel Charles
Jonathan Cape; ? 20... | Read.. |
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Why Corner
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Leslie Michelson does not have prostate cancer, but as chief executive officer of the Prostate Cancer Foundation he knows all too well how bad the disease is. So Michelson, 54, changed his diet. ... | 
