Choosing the right building blocks
Most of the houses built in the first flush of post-quake work in Latur were urban imports to a rural landscape. RESHMA PATIL reports on what not to do while rebuilding Gujarat.



Gujarat must remain on the front page
Having heard in England about the scale of the Gujarat catastrophe, Lord Bill Deedes had expected to find mothers in Gujarat weeping for their lost children.



Nature versus nurture
Most interesting finding to emerge from the research into the human genome is not the fact that we share a strange kinship with the roundworm or that three-quarters of the genome consists of junk, but that the genetic information all humanity carries is 99.99% identical.



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