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IN TODAY'S PAPER
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CITY NEWSLINES
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WEEKLY FEATURES
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| Peddling a two-wheeled dream |
| A Bengali inventor is trying to hawk his design for a personal mobility vehicle for the common man, report Subrata Mukherjee and Anirban Das Mahapatra |
| Meet Anadish Pal, a self-taught electronics designer who used to do freelance projects for companies such as Maruti Udyog, Honda, the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped, Dehradun, and Duracell (now a part of Gillette India) — and now has turned his attention to inventions. He has several US patents in his name, the most significant of them being his design for a personal mobility vehicle (PMV) for the common man. The two-wheeled vehicle is ready to go to the prototype development stage and Pal has been trying to get companies interested in it ... | Read.. |
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| Coming, mobile shopping |
| Imagine going to a multiplex and deciding what movie to go for by simply downloading the video trailer instantaneously on your mobile phone and purcha ... | Read.. |
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| The ipod killer |
 As soon as they had the call from Microsoft’s headquarters in Washington state, the record company executives knew something huge was about to happen. ... | Read.. |
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| Bite of death |
 Every year, almost 30,000 people die of rabies in India, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Exact numbers are unavailable because the disease is not categorised as a notifiable disease by the government, and hence it is not mandatory t ... | Read.. |
| The scalpel, to cut flab |
 A drastic operation is the last resort to treating morbid obesity, reports Shabina Akhtar ... | Read.. |
| Your Health: Sweating it out is really healthy |
 I am a 21-year-old girl and skinny. I am very particular about my diet and eat only healthy and nutritious food ... | Read.. |
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| Solar scars |
 Not every woman finds premature baldness a turn off. One of our readers has been happily married to a man for 44 years who was already going bald in the sixth-form. Many women discover that although early baldness is often genetic it is also frequentl ... | Read.. |
| Recommended: Uniting separate forces |
 THEORY OF ALMOST EVERYTHING
Robert Oerter
Pi Press; $ 24.95... | Read.. |
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Why Corner |
| Why do snakes shed their skin regularly' |
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