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Internet tech merged with paging, cell phone channels
K Jayakrishnan and Kurian Thomas, Kochi's computer whiz-kids who created a sensation on the Internet through "Shellsock," are making news again by merging Internet technology with paging and cellular phone channels. They have designed and prototyped a system which can be used to provide value added services like e-mail notification, virtual e-mail, global paging et al to existing pager and cellular phone subscribers.
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Clinton's a true Muzhik
While US President Bill Clinton's alleged sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky has hit the headlines throughout the world for more than a week, Russian public and media are taking the affair very coolly. There was no sensational Clinton coverage in Russian press, with newspapers giving just facts and photos in inside pages.
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Zeroing in on baldness
Scientists have discovered a gene that causes a rare and extreme hair loss, a finding they say, could point to better remedies for hereditary baldness. Researchers found the gene, appropriately named Hairless, by studying a Pakistani family plagued for generations by an inherited form of Alopecia Universalis.
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Where the Mahatma is hot and the khadi not cool at all
A student doing his Master of Computer Applications walks around in khadi pyjamas and jabbas, women studying hotel management wear hand-spun saris. Every morning, they sweep and scrub the floors, spin khadi. Mahatma Gandhi's precept is daily practice here. And there are quite a few who are complaining. They are the students of the Gujarat Vidyapith, founded by the Mahatma on June 11, 1928.
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Respectable addiction
Ask Robert Lefever, Director of PROMIS, a private addiction recovery centre in London, and he tells you that workaholics use work to make themselves feel better, rather than as a way of getting things done. Psychologist Stephen Williams, Director of the Resources Systems business consultancy, says workaholics do not choose to work long hours. Rather, they have lost control, are obsessed with work and feel guilty when they are not working.
Massage mystique
The touch business is booming. From physiology centres to new-age gymnasiums and holistic centres to beauty parlours for the well-heeled, all are full of stressed-out strivers and sole-weary shoppers who drop in, stay fully dressed, and quickly unkink with a 10-minute foot or back rub. Soothing the weary soul (or sore hamstring) is one thing, treating post-mastectomy patients is a considerably more complex understanding.
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