Word: india
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time Dad sends the rogue archaeologist to India to battle child- enslaving thugs, take a roller-coaster ride through lower Hades and narrowly escape the world's first heart surgery performed without benefit of anesthesia Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
...strongest confirmation yet. The next day, Francesco Scaramuzzi, a bearded physicist with the Italian National Agency for Nuclear and Alternative Energy, reported what has been dubbed "Frascati fusion," for the town near Rome where his team detected the neutron signature of cold fusion. This, plus other announcements from India and South America, was beginning to give the doubters pause. Then, on April 25, the tide turned. Georgia Tech, having hastily withdrawn its fusion results the previous week for fear that its equipment was bad, made the reversal official. "I don't think fusion occurred," said embarrassed team leader James Mahaffey...
...given that alientation has been the key theme in every major modern work since existentialism. What Wittman does and says is not original. Even his dream--of writing an epic play that would weave together Chinese novels and tales about the famed monkey who brings back Buddhist scripts from India--is based on others' thoughts. And nothing really happens in the book; the drama is practically irrelevant...
...India considers itself the guardian of Nepal, serving as supplier of or conduit for most of Nepal's commodities in exchange for its loyalty. Now the tiny nation with a harsh if spectacular terrain has offended its big neighbor, and India has not only refused to renew trade and transit agreements that expired last month but closed down eleven of 22 vital transit routes. Most of Nepal's necessities, including petroleum products and hospital oxygen, normally traverse these roads. Though New Delhi is permitting goods to cross the border, shortages are forcing the government to impose strict limits...
What evidently aroused India's ire was Nepal's 1988 purchase of guns and other weaponry from China, a longtime Indian rival. New Delhi regards the deal as a violation of the spirit of its 39-year-old friendship treaty with Katmandu. But Nepal seems determined to stand up to India's pressure, even if that means short-term suffering and completely revising its trade relations. Says a senior Nepalese official: "We will not give an inch...