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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| Be careful with this brave new world |
| In an extract from his new book, Ian Wilmut considers the moral and ethical implications of cloning. |
| First, there was Dolly — the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. For six years, she was a star munching happily in her stall, growing ever fatter and making headlines across the world. And then, a year later, came a clone called Polly. Poor Polly was an also-ran in terms of media coverage. But, in many ways, her birth in 1997 thrilled me just as much. She was the first sheep to be given a human gene via cloning — in her case, to make her milk rich in a clotting protein that could be used to treat haemophiliacs ... | Read.. |
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| Bridging the medical divide |
| Chandan Barui, 65, waited for hours at a local dispensary in Purulia only to be told that he would have to travel all the way to Calcutta to get prope ... | Read.. |
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| Stay fit with iPod |
| If you have an iPod nano and a pair of shoes that can accommodate just a speck of a sensor in the sole, you can have the most rigorous and pleasurable ... | Read.. |
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| Danger in the air |
 Barbara Jarvis was a tall, slender, and very healthy woman living on Kauai, Hawaii’s “garden island”. In her early 50s, she began to experience shortness of breath, which she thought at first ... | Read.. |
| Blame it on Hormones |
| Delaying pregnancy raises the risk of developing breast cancer, reports Shibani Chattopadhyay ... | Read.. |
| Your Health: Dr Gita Mathai |
 Living with AIDS
It’s time the country wakes up to the dangers people living with HIV and AIDS are exposed to. ... | Read.. |
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| Look angry, get noticed |
 Trying to get someone’s attention' Looking angry may be the key. The face most likely to stand out in a crowd is an irate one, according to a new study, and men are better than women at picking up the anger that a face conveys. ... | Read.. |
| Recommended: A palaeontological mystery |
EXTINCTION
Douglas H. Erwin
Princeton University Press; $ 24.95... | Read.. |
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| Reality Check: Artificial sweeteners cause migraines |
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Why Corner |
| Why is it difficult to separate a wet glass slide from another' |
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