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The hesitant growth of surgery in Bengal

Rapid strides in Western medicine and surgery relegated Indian medical systems to the back seat, especially because of brahmanical abhorrence of human dissection.

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Tree cutting drives for roads

THE GENERAL reaction to the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) in the UP hill region of Uttarakhand is, "Hum paryavaran shabd se hi tang aa gaye hai." (We are fed up of the word environment.) The cry

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Device Spots potential back pain

PHYSIOTHERAPY researchers in Australia have developed a device that can predict the probability of back pain in humans. Many devices can measure spinal muscle functions, such as

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Organic cotton is catching on

Health concerns have led to increasing production of organically grown cotton, which uses less pesticide

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The Panipat tragedy: what went wrong?

A routine valve repair on a gas pipeline suddenly turned out to be a nightmare of death because basic precautions were ignored

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Caught between athletes and technology

Technology is taking sports to new highs, triggering a debate on whether competitions should be between people or between machines.

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Free trade pact raises environmental fears

A common market linking Mexico, the United States and Canada could very well result in US firms heading north or south to escape strict pollution control standards

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Picking on pigs

PANIC-STRICKEN by an illicit liquor that has taken a toll of at least 75 persons and a mysterious fever that may be Japanese encephalitis or simple food poisoning, Patna medical authorities have

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Ants forage at 'safe' temperatures

The silver ant -- Cataglyphis bombycina -- is the undertaker of the Sahara desert -- a role it has been forced to adopt because of its own body limitations and because of a small lurking, desert

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Cleaner and costlier

THE BRITISH public is faced with a grim choice: clean versus cheap water. In a recently released document, The Cost of Quality, Ian Byatt, director general of water services, predicted the cost of

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