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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| Are you a supertaster' |
| Our food preference has roots in prehistory, infancy and psyche, writes Anjana Ahuja |
| As far as I know, I have no gastronomic nemesis. I’m ambivalent about okra; no matter how meltingly cooked, I can taste only soggy string. I wouldn’t knowingly order a brace of sheep’s eyeballs, either, but I did manage to chew on stewed chicken feet at a wedding banquet.... | Read.. |
| Failures aren’t mentioned in journals |
| It is universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife, wrote Jane Austin in Pride and Prejudice. “Had she been a scientist she would have put it in a different manner, and would have simply ... | Read.. |
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| What’s a planet, anyway' |
| In my daughter’s circle of friends, one 3-year-old named Jared can reel off the names of all the planets. He and his parents are pretty proud, justly in my estimation, of this achievement. Little does he know, however, that the lords of astronomy are working against him ... | Read.. |
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| In the virtual sun |
 Imagine relaxing in a tiny private cove, on a lava beach near the mists of a waterfall. The sun is shining, a tropical bird cries somewhere in the distance and the cares of the working world seem ... | Read.. |
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| QED: Last attack |
 Growing influence of fundamentalist Christians in the Bush administration and their challenge to science represented by “intelligent design”, which holds that the Darwinian theory of evolution is fatally flawed, indicates the rising tide of ... | Read.. |
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Dark circles, puffy eyes, dry and sallowlooking skin can surely mean only one thing: too many late nights. Time to catch up on your beauty sleep. So accepted is the common wisdom that sleep deprivation affects your looks that results of the first stu ... | 
