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NINTH ISSUE of my Newsletter <<Back JUNE 2001 Vol. II No.7 Personal Nikhil! Newsletter! INSIDE THIS ISSUE: - (1) How to Keep Young - What's this science called Gerontology? (2) Interesting Facts - Five Interesting Facts behind Common Health Aids (3) Download of the Month - Registry Cleaner (4) Message from me - First Anniversary (important) >================================================================================== (1) How to Keep Young - What's this science called Gerontology? - Why do we age? Why do we die? Is it possible to extend human life? Can youth be eternal? These are some of the unanswerable questions facing the man today. The scientists today are promoting their studies on this subject through a new science called GERONTOLOGY. For an insight into this new emerging science, log onto http://in.geocities.com/nikhil2000_g/newsletter/news_10.htm ================================================================================== (2) Interesting Facts - Five Interesting Facts behind Common Health Aids 1. ASPIRIN - The most widely-used pain killerr in the world is aspirin. It was perfected by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dresser in 1899. It was first sold under the trade name Bayer Aspirin in 1905 by prescription only, and in powder form. By 1915, tablets of aspirin were sold over the counter. 2. BAND-AIDS - The first adhesive bandages were madde by Earl Dickson, an employee of Johnson & Johnson. He designed them for his wife who was prone to cuts and scrapes. The company liked these bandages, named them Band-Aids, and began selling them in 1921. 3. EYEGLASSES - The first people known to wear eyeglasses were the 13th-century Mongols. These eyeglasses were made of convex-shaped quartz with frames of tortoise shells. In the 1700's, Benjamin Franklin came up with the idea of combining far-sighted and near-sighted glasses into one pair of bifocal glasses. The first contact lenses were made in the 1880s, even though Leonardo da Vinci had thought of them as early as the 1500s. 4. THERMOMETER - The very first thermometer to measure heat was invented by Galileo. Santorio, a friend of Galileo, was inspired by Galileo's invention and invented the clinical thermometer to record body temperature. Today it is the most widely-used medical tool in the world. 5. TOOTH CLEANERS - The first known instrument to clean teeth was the toothpick. it was used as early as 3000 B.C. by the Sumerians who had toothpicks made of gold. The toothbrush may have been invented by the Chinese in the 15th century. ============================================================================ (3) Download of the month- Registry Cleaner Registry is one of the most critical things of your computer system and is often responsible for majority of irresponsible behaviour of your computer. Normally, due to regular installation and uninstallation of programs on your computer, the registry gets enlarged and often it contains entries of the program , which no longer exist on your computer , which in turn creates many problems. Thus it is essential to keep the registry always trim. Registry Healer is basically a tool for scanning your system's Registry for invalid references to non-existent folders and files. Thus using this program you can keep aside the worry of registry getting fatter by installing new programs as this useful software will clear all the junk from your computer. This program is quite safe, as it gives you an option to create a back-up copy of your registry entries, which can be restored in case something goes wrong. Download this from www.jetutils.com ========================================================================= (4) Message from me - First Anniversary Dear Friend, My website completes one year from the day I started it. It was in July when I had started this website to put my interests, news from India and the articles I write or find interesting for world to see on this massive world library called Internet. This is the June issue, therefore it marks the end of a remarkable first year. Though I started this newsletter to serve you people in August, I would like to celebrate the FIRST ANNIVERSARY of my website in the next issue - July issue. For this I want contributions from everyone of you. You can suggest ideas or any stuff you think would serve this purpose. And hey, don't wait for others to give in their ideas, just click REPLY and send in whatever comes in your mind. Therefore, I am waiting for your suggestions. ================================================================================ Please forward this newsletter to your friends and please ask them to subscribe my newsletter by sending a mail at [email protected] For past issues of the newsletter move to, http://newsletter.ramandnikhil.com/
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