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| Salt and sickness have a dangerous
liaison, writes Anjana Ahuja |
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stuff. Once you start, you’ll be hooked. It will ruin your life and may eventually
kill you. And children, in particular, must be saved from its seductive grip.
This was the message issued recently by scientists, in an effort to persuade the
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grand illusion |
| Most of the current controversies
associated with science revolve around the vastly different reactions people both
within the scientific community and outside it have, not to the strange ... |
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| Adaptive. Intelligent.
Quick learner. If you think all these attributes are only unique to humans, you
are mistaken. Mimicking the imprecise decision-making process of the human brain,
scientists have ... | Read.. |
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your comp |
You just know that certain technologies, once they finally become inexpensive
and easy to use, will be earth-shattering hits: instant viewing of any movie ever
made, nonpolluting cars, cell phones that don’t drop calls. ... |
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| QED:
Pirates’ win |
Anti-piracy movement will take a backseat, for sure. Stung by criticism and legal
notices, the world’s second-largest music label Sony BMG has temporarily
suspended making music CDs with antipiracy technology. ... | Read.. |
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The classical medical teaching was that it is a disease of ‘bad girls’.
But then doctors gradually realised that not just the promiscous, it can affect
any sexually active woman. By the middle of the 1960s, cancer specialists knew
that at l ... | 
