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...disappointed Hindu fundamentalists who hoped it would undo India's secular constitution. Last year, for instance, the government offered no support to Hindu volunteers who marched to Ayodhya to demand that the temple be built at the disputed site. Key elements of the BJP's right-wing support base, like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu-nationalist volunteer group, "feel that Vajpayee has done precious little to advance the Hindu agenda," says Harish Khare, a journalist at the Indian newspaper the Hindu and an expert on relations between the BJP and the RSS. Ram Madhav, an RSS spokesman, acknowledges...
...renounce its Hindu chauvinism? The BJP's attitude toward the Hindu right has been strategically ambiguous. At the same time that it has done little to upset the secular parties whose support it needs to stay in power, the BJP has also tried to reassure its right-wing base of its commitment to Hindu nationalism. Though the government has so far made little effort to build a Hindu temple at Ayodhya, the BJP's Mahajan says such plans remain part of his party's platform. "We will try to facilitate the construction of a temple through legal, constitutional means...
...great deal of credit belongs to the Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women’s Athletics, which organized a pizza study break for all female athletes in order to attract more support for the hockey team’s big game. Their efforts drew a centralized fan base consisting of athletes from Harvard’s field hockey, soccer and softball teams and Radcliffe crew, in addition to numerous other female and male athletes scattered around the arena...
...aspirin, and a mote will keep doing this for longer than a year; add a power source the size of a bottle cap, and your mote is good for a decade. Most important, the motes have minuscule radio transmitters that talk to other motes (or to a base station connected to a PC) within 100 feet or so. With a single network of 10,000 motes, the upper limit, you could cover 9 sq. mi.--and get information about each point along...
...want to retire on Moon Base! Emilio Desalvo Italy...