ON April 20, a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. The rig was called Deepwater Horizon, well named for British Petroleum's (B.P.) remarkable effort to draw oil from a deep-sea rig that has to go through 22,000 to 25,000 feet (6,600-7,500 metres) of water before it strikes the seabed.
Eleven oil workers are presumed dead although their bodies have not been found.
The Health Care Reform Bill is a remarkable achievement though the reform is only a moderate one.
President Barack Obama with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after signing the Health Care Bill on March 23.
Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn a PhD in industrial engineering and another in economics, after which he returned to India in 1981 to work with TERI.
