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| Big
bottoms |
| Keen on waist-whittling?
Eat a little ? but often, suggests Cassandra Jardine |
| I’ve
never been proud of being an apple. Given the choice,
I would rather have been a pear any day. At least pears
have waists and can hide their big bottoms under skirts.
Besides, men find big bottoms attractive, but I’ve
never heard one extolling the allure of a spare tyre.
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| Rudolf
the reindeer |
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I listen to carols, I can’t resist it: I am
cursed with a scientific mindedness that leads me
to wonder about that Star of wonder, star ... |
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| Mirages
named after Einstein |
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in time for the end of the Einstein year, astronomers
have fetched from the sky a gallery of baubles:
galaxies with pretty blue halos around them ... |
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| A valuable guidance |
In recent years, Global Positioning System navigation, commonly known as GPS, has rapidly migrated from ocean-going vessels and adventurers’ backpacks to the dashboards of luxury sedans. In yet another leap into the mainstream, GPS technology, c ... | Read..
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| QED:
Faux
pas in medicine |
To err is human, so goes the old adage, but when an error leads to a death, the ancient wisdom is difficult to digest. Medical mistakes are nearly impossible to forgive or forget. Although everyone involved in the tragedy feels it, often the doctor ha
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| Recommended:
Closing the gaps left by Darwin
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The
plausibility of life
Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart
Yale University Press; $30... | Read.. |
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There’s one in every office, factory or school: The colleague who slumps in the neighbouring cubicle hacking and sniffling and wheezing, a mound of tissues rising like a viral mountain range. ... | 
