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After Oprah, Cook grills beef industry
The beef industry is under attack. No, not from vegetarians. From Robin Cook. His new medical thriller, Toxin, is a searing indictment of the beef industry in particular, and American society in general, where corporate greed takes precedence over ethics and even human life.
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Super "weapon" to escape CTBT
With the development of a "teraflop" supercomputer, India is now capable of reliably and rapidly testing nuclear weapons without physically exploding them. Last week, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing unveiled the "Param 10000," a 100-gigaflops machine whose indigenously developed architecture readily allows it to be scaled up to a teraflop computer.
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Fashion is making news
Once upon a time, there was only Doordarshan news. When newsreaders followed a simple dress code: women wore saris, men jackets and a tie, with a dab of powder on the nose. Nobody looked at the men much but everyone commented on the saris, the blouses.
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Site Insight
Which is the best site to go for international economic statistics? As good as the sites of multilateral funding agencies like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund is an organisation which is known for its secrecy more than anything else. The Central Intelligence Agency. The ubiquitous foreign hand.
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