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Earful of noise

What is supposed to be a receptacle for sound, sometimes makes quite a racket itself

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Fencing in territory, fencing out inequality...

... the Adivasi woman is no longer a silent observer of the issues bothering her for ages

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INDONESIA

Primitive men still exist in this modern era. In Indonesia a tribe has been discovered which still dwells in trees and actually practices cannibalism. The tribesmen were spotted in tree houses in the

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The tobacco battle

A section of American doctors raise a hueand cry against the defaulting tobacco industry

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Disease detector

Ruthenium Iinked DNA strands can make genetic testing cheap enough to be commonly employed

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Breaking the liquor legacy

Tilomajhi and Andharmajhi from Kalahandi, Orissa, were appointed as special police by the government of Orissa, entrusted with the power to break any country liquor pot they come across. Both

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MALAYSIA

A new device to detect the much feared AIDS virus, is now available in Malaysia. The test is done on the oral fluid of the suspected patient, instead of the usual procedure of testing the blood. This

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Bamboo musings

Although termed "forest weed" or "the poor man's timber" bamboo's potential may satisfy modernity's growing needs

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Genetic signature

To discourage counterfeiters, signing of important documents with DNA is finding solid ground. Already a practice with American cartoonist Joe Barbara, who signs his creations with his own

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Worse than usury

On May 28,1995, 3 jeeps full of uniformed officers and forest guards along with a truck and a tractor arrived in Haliasahi, a remote Adivasi hamlet in Kashipur block, Rayagada district,

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