By KENNETH CHANG
When archaeologists excavated brick tombs outside a ceremonial site for an early king of Egypt, they expected to find the remains of high officials who had been sacrificed to accompany the king in his posthumous travels.
Instead, they found donkeys.
No other animals have ever been found at such sites. Even at the tombs of […]
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By Miguel Helft
For months, Google has sought to make inroads against Microsoft’s dominance in office applications. Now, it’s getting a little help from others.
Cemaphore Systems, a company that specializes in e-mail backup services, is expected to announce on Wednesday a new product that allows people to automatically synchronize their e-mail, calendar and address books between […]
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By MIGUEL HELFT
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said Tuesday that it would joining an alliance to be led by Google, its principal rival, that will try to make it easier for programmers to write software that can run on the pages of many social networks and other Web sites.
Google announced on Tuesday that it would give […]
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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN : WASHINGTON — Researchers must go back to the drawing board before they can develop an effective vaccine against H.I.V., AIDS experts said at a scientific meeting on Tuesday.
And Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the top federal official responsible for AIDS research, agreed that more fundamental knowledge is needed about H.I.V. and […]
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By GARDINER HARRIS : In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College jolted the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through widespread use of CT scans.
Small print at the end of the study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, noted […]
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By HENRY ALFORD : I LOVE shopping at my local Gourmet Garage as much as the next guy. But sometimes I plop a can of chicken broth down on the checkout counter and think, “$2.19? For someone to boil chicken bones? I want that job.”
So when I heard that the food you can buy at […]
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