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From 'untouchable' to role model

" As a Dalit, the lowest level in India's complex caste system, she was a so-called scavenger, a person who collects the garbage, feces and urine of other higher caste people. In the eyes of many, that would make...

created by renovatio | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Bush Signs Law to Widen Reach for Wiretapping

"President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government’s authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants." They who would give up an essential liberty for safety,...

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Leonard Brody

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Second Life Bans Beastiality

"Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, may be extending their crackdown on “Broadly Offensive” behavior to Bestiality, following attempts to remove virtual pedophilia (or Age-Play) from Second Life in...

created by Leonard Brody | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Goading Iran into an attack

One of the most interesting parts of President George Bush's speech last night was his cryptic remarks, and an implicit threat, directed at Iran and Syria."Iran is providing material support for attacks on...

created by Actual News Geezer | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Broadly Used Consumer Technologies Driving IT?

Edmund Jenks

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Broadly Used Consumer Technologies Driving IT? :: MAXINE

"Off the shelf/over the portal" applications made easy ... too easy. "A contributor to SlashDot - fiannaFailMan writes to point out The Economist's reporting on the way consumer-driven software products are...

created by Edmund Jenks | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Edmund Jenks

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Kofi Annan's Legacy of Failure

"United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered his swan song today at the Truman Presidential Library in Missouri.[1] It was a thinly veiled parting shot at U.S. foreign policy delivered by an embittered...

created by Edmund Jenks | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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British embryo laws face overhaul

"LONDON -- Researchers will be allowed to create test-tube embryos that are part human, part animal under a proposal to be announced by government health officials this week. A child's need for a father no longer will be a consideration when a woman seeks fertility...

created by nukegingrich | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Economic Impact of Windows Vista

"Research Study Outlines U.S. Economic Impact of Windows Vista December 11, 2006, 12:01 AM REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A research study released today by International Data Corporation (IDC) and commissioned by Microsoft Corp. shows that the Windows...

created by nukegingrich | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

created by anilarora | 5 years ago
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Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

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Patch Tuesday comes for Vista too

"While Microsoft has touted Windows Vista as its most secure client operating system yet, the unfinished product is already getting regular security fixes. Vista, slated to be broadly available in January, is the first major Microsoft product to get security updates while it...

created by pgaliba | 5 years ago
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