Global warming: It's the economy, stupid! Sacrificing economic ambitions to international demands for cuts will dent growth in poor nations and do more damage than climate change, says Prasenjit Chowdhury.
Puzzling next move Maki Kaji collects new puzzles and refines them with the help of thousands of Japanese subscribers to his quarterly puzzles magazine. Japan has many thousands of amateur puzzlers, but Kaji-san is in a different league.
NEUROSCIENCE
Forgetting is remembering The researchers found that the more a study participant had suppressed the memory of distracting word pairs, the steeper the decrease in activity in a region of the brain called the anterior cingulated cortex.
External nurturing: The threat to al-Jazeera When al-Jazeera was launched in 1996, it was hailed by the US as a brave step towards liberalisation of West Asian media. But that all changed after September 2001 and the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
VIEWPOINT
Relevance of Ashtavadhana Avadhana can be described as a multi tasking by the mind and can be of great help in our modern day educational strategies, management techniques, learning methodologies and personality development programmes.
Readying for the race... A camel drinks water at the Yamuna River, with a backdrop of the Taj Mahal, in Agra, on Thursday. The Taj Mahal is among the leading contenders to be a new Seven Wonders of the World. The seven winners will be announced on July 7 in Lisbon, Portugal.AP
The Karnataka Government is planning to send 250 legislators to China for a study tour. Will the tour help in the development of the State? We invite our readers to express their views in about 100 words. Responses may be sent to Deccan Herald, No 75, M G Road, Bangalore - 560001 or e-mail: editordh@deccanherald.co.in latest by 2 pm on Saturday.
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