Saturday 29 March 2003

Doctor falls victim to disease he identified Dr Carlo Urbani, the World Health Organisation doctor who first identified the fast-spreading pneumonia severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS has himself died of the disease. Urbani, who was also President of Doctors Without Frontiers Italy, was a WHO expert on communicable diseases and had worked in the public health programmes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. 2:56:08 PM    comment []  Google It!

ET fails to 'phone home' Based on the results of the SETI@home project, 150 areas of the night sky were identified for further study. However preliminary examination of the data from the Arecibo radio telescope is not promising, according to the BBC. The people behind the project, however, still plan to farm out the data to SETI@home subscribers for processing. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 2:43:52 PM    comment []  Google It!

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