Scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease to its genetic roots. The Washington University team identified 10 gene mutations, which appeared key to the development of the woman’s acute myeloid leukaemia. Just two of these had been linked to the disease before. The sequencing technique, described in the […]
New Profile Of The Black Man
PROFILE OF THE NEGRO Race is deeper than physique. It is more profound than the surface characteristics of the major species of humankind. In my study and observation of the intelligence, character and temperament (ICT) of black people, better the zoologic or anthropologic nomenclature: NEGRO people, I once thought that the Negro is […]
Will Texting Save the Elephants?
Kenya is hoping that by implanting mobile phone cards in the animals’ collars, the government will be able to protect both elephant and human populations. Chip Implants Rein in Elephants SIM cards implanted in elephant collars send out warnings by text message when the animals approach farms. The cards work in coordination with virtual “geofences” […]
Mortgages for minorities: the forgotten cause of the credit crisis?
When a Christmas cracker goes bang! it is only after equal and opposite forces have pulled on it from an opposite direction. To extend the metaphor, the bang is the sound of our economy imploding. But while the media have focussed on one force, the greedy bankers and neo-financial architecture, nothing has been said about […]
Theatricality of Sound in Hypertext Writing in Romanian Literature
New technologies influence writing, triggering a redefinition of the relationship between writer-text-reader-critic and giving birth to a new contemporary fictional model, characterized by fragment organization, character crisis, dramatization of the epic and the lyric text, narrative crisis, a mixture of various aspects of language, exploration of diverse enunciative spaces. The digital era has become […]
Namkeen: The tears are salty
Gulzar’s then well received film “Namkeen” was released way back in 1982. The film has a cast of woman characters and the lead is Waheeda Rehman, a spectacled old lady led into manual labor by the vagaries of her husband, a sarangi player who is insatiably addicted to alcohol and the rural theatre of nautanki […]
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