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Publish or perish Getting favourable papers published in journals is seen as a sound marketing strategy by some drug companies. Ghost written editorials and review papers to promote off-label use of drugs is not uncommon. Diseases spread by dust clouds CHARLES DARWIN'S note from 1832 suggests the dust clouds that engulfed HMS Beagle as it anchored in St Jago in the Cape Verde Islands off the African coast were dramatic, if unsettling. His note: "The dust falls in such quantities as to ... Benefits of varied diet Different foods have different nutrients. Eating a range of foods ensures that we get useful levels of a variety of health giving substances. More leisurely meals after mass extinction AFTER A mass extinction event 3 million years ago, marine snails took a safe, exceedingly patient approach to feeding on their prey, presumably because there were fewer predators or competitors. The report was published in Science. ... Evidence of life in rock glaciers EVIDENCE OF microbial activity in a rock glacier high above tree line in the Rocky Mountains, a barren environment previously thought to be devoid of life has been discovered by a research team from the university of Colorado at Boulder. Found ...
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Will this be the year of the digital camera?A key inflection point in photography has occurred — as digital cameras become more attractive for lay consumers than the film-based models. Anand Parthasarathy examines the options and checks out a typical model.
Managing bollworms in cotton COTTON IS INFESTED mostly by three different types of bollworms. They are spotted bollworms Earias vitella and Earias insulana, green or American bollworm Helicoverpa armigera and pink bollworm Pectinophora ... Pest infestation in betelvine Spraying of Entomogenous fungi twice every fortnight suppresses the borer pest sesbania. FARMER'S NOTEBOOK 
High yielding, disease-resistant cowpeaSCIENTISTS AT the Division of Genetics at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, have developed a high-yielding and disease-resistant cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) variety. FARM QUERIES Coir waste QUESTION: Can we use coconut coir waste instead of cow dung in preparing vermicompost? S. Rengarajan, Dindugal, Tamil Nadu ANSWER: Coconut coir can be separately added but cow dung is necessary for providing essential ... FARM QUERIES Botanical name ANSWER: The botanical name for Perandai is Cissus quadrangularis. Readers are invited to send their queries with full postal address to `Farm Queries,' The Hindu, Kasturi Buildings, 859/860, Anna Salai, Chennai 600002 or ...
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