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 Hollowed halls of learning

conced in a rarified world of lecture rooms and ivory towers, pilloried by their critics as lazy, overpaid and irrelevant, the dons of the academic world were pinned squirming on a wall by a study

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Sunday, August 14, 1994
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Education, Statistics
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 Trumpeting for a living

The Tamil Nadu forest department has come up with a plan to put captured elephants to use

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14/08/1994
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 Where have all the Indians gone?

Until we shed our communal, regional and caste identities, the quintessential Indian will remain a rare species

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14/08/1994
Bhamy V Shenoy
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 Loss of energy

IN TOO pat a manner, some critics have already seen in us secretary of energy Hazel O'Leary's wide-ranging talks with her counterpart Indian ministers, evidence of a forced transfer of exorbitant

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14/08/1994
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Energy Policy, Energy Technology, India
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 To get in touch

Chetna Lilavatiben Lalbhai's bungalow Civil Camp Road Shahibaug Ahmedabad- 380 004 Prayas Devgarh Village via Pratapgarh Distt Chittorgarh Rajasthan Penurramai Iyakkam 13, New Colony

Publication Date: 
14/08/1994
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 Catch a falling star...

What on Earth are comets? And why do they behave whimsically like they do?

Publication Date: 
14/08/1994
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Astronomy, Planets
India

 Fooling the body's immune system

Indian scientists have devised a technique that can jam the functioning of hormones

Publication Date: 
14/08/1994
S Sankarapandi
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Medical Research, India
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 Pushing the habit

How and why tobacco multinationals are scrambling into Third World markets

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14/08/1994
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 Comets cataloging

Several comets, especially the brighter ones, have been discovered not by professional astronomers, but by amateurs using simple telescopes or even binoculars. The comets found by professional

Publication Date: 
14/08/1994
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 Caught on the wrong chair

Two ministries of the Union government have been left with considerable egg on their faces for exulting prematurely on reports that N K Singh, the colourful additional secretary of the department of

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14/08/1994
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