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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| A bug’s revenge |
| A cancer-causing microbe has a sunny side, reports Prasun Chaudhuri |
| Australian doctors Robin Warren and Barry Marshall were in Stockholm last Friday to receive this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine. The citation for the world’s most coveted award lauded their “discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulc... | Read.. |
| Newcomers not allowed |
| Probiotics, or the friendly bacteria which naturally occur in our digestive tract, is the latest fad among health freaks. The friendly bugs are not on ... | Read.. |
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| Lure of ideas |
| Simon Singh fished out a toy ' a piece of plastic looking like the butt of a knife ' from his pocket and gave it a spin. The piece started rotating on ... | Read.. |
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| An absent-minded genius |
| Since childhood, odds were heavily stacked against Albert Einstein. As a child he was slow in learning how to speak. At school he was hardly the best ... | Read.. |
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| When inhalers bite back |
| Inhalers that give short-term relief from asthma can increase the risk of attacks if the drug is given regularly, a new study has shown. ... | Read.. |
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| New-era wireless |
 Once you’ve tried digital radio in your home, you won’t look back. A digital radio is far easier to use than a conventional one; it offers up to three times as many stations and the sound quality ... | Read.. |
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| QED: Reserved for XXX |
 Pornography, no matter we love or hate it, is here to stay. As yet not a single initiative has succeeded in wiping out ‘adult contents’ from our sacrosanct social space. And it’s even tougher to avoid sexual stuff on the World Wide Web ... | Read.. |
| Recommended: When mind and machine merge |
The singularity is near
Ray Kurzweil
Viking Adult; $19.77... | Read.. |
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When is a person too old to benefit from cancer screening tests' The answer, experts say, depends less on age than on the type of cancer, the test and individual characteristics of the person to be screened. ... | 
