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...poverty remains all too evident, the country still has only 3,000 km of freeway, and finding enough water to drink is an annual battle for tens of millions. (Oh, and there are no real-life plans for an Indian lunar landing.) There's a handy Hindu concept to explain these paradoxes. Maya means wonder, as in Mayanagri (city of dreams), the Hindi nickname for Bombay. It also denotes a willful fantasy - of the kind, for example, that would have a U.S. President last week expressing his "joy" at seeing the new India while in Delhi, a city only half...
Your book includes many lists, including people you hate. Explain...
...when learning of studies that unequivocally reveal its persistence. It seems that the tendency to believe in a fair world is a powerful one, with the ability to perceive discrimination coming only slowly after a person has experienced enough prejudice to cause harm or impede success. This may help explain why so many highly successful people, like Summers, are not sensitive to the tremendous obstacle that prejudice still poses for women. So what lessons have we learned in the aftermath of Summers’ comments? First, speech that categorizes people based on race, religion, or gender as innately inferior?...
...information, relied on radiation harmful to the fetus, Pedrosa said. The study found that MRIs can also diagnose causes of abdominal pain other than appendicitis. “We were able to not only exclude the diagnosis of acute appendicitis but also to provide an alternative diagnosis that could explain the symptoms,” said Pedrosa. “That actually includes some patients in whom we did recognize other sources of abdominal pain that require surgical treatment, like for example ovarian torsion and recognize degenerative fibroids, benign tumors in the uterus.” The researchers conducted...
...lawmakers raised new questions about the ports deal, alleging that the UAE is too eaily infiltrated by terrorists and asking the Administration to explain whether U.S. terminal-operating companies could bid on UAE terminal work. But what really ticked off GOP lawmakers were the details of a much-ballyhooed 45-day cooling-off period, which turned out to be not a delay or review at all but just another way for Bush to say, "We've already made up our minds. We're just going to delay the paperwork for a month or so." Lawmakers regarded this gambit as another...