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LTTE attack in military context
Pushed into the Vanni jungles and denied vital supplies as a result of a relentless year-long campaign by the Sri Lankan military, a desperate LTTE has scored a hit of modest military significance. The October 22 pre-dawn ground-and-air attack ...

A fine initiative
The recent announcement of a public-private partnership by three Europe-based pharmaceutical companies and the British government for using human embryonic stem cells to assess the safety of investigational drugs gives a boost to stem cell ...

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Pakistan and its prisoners of destiny
By Ramesh Thakur

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India’s new image crisis in East Asia
By P.S. Suryanarayana

Carbon sequestration for better dryland productivity
By William D. Dar

How to succeed in the new world of pro-am journalism
By Jeff Jarvis

Corrections and clarifications
* The heading of a report (“Sport”, October 23, 2007) was “ Exhaustive schedule ahead: Dhoni”. “Exhaustive” should have been “exhausting”. The error was corrected in later ...

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How chimpanzee groups learn different skills
Chimpanzees are the only animals, other than humans, that learn certain cultural behaviours — such as grooming, hunting or how to crack open nuts — from those around them, according to a study. Culture is defined by scientists as a ...

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