Baba Amte: Riding sports car to serving lepers Baba Amte underwent formal training at the leprosy colony established at Dattapur. He studied how to diagnose, give injections, clean ulcers, remove decomposing bones, dress wounds and administer drugs.
Turning victory into defeat The political settlement that the world is begging us to reach is the only way to ultimately stop the violence between us and the Palestinians...
VIEWPOINT
Pitfalls of instant adulthood When hurrying serves parental needs at the expense of children without imbibing in them the healthy social values, the result on the child is disastrous.
ZIMBABAWE
It's better to walk Reeling under hyperinflation, many Zimbabweans find no money to afford simple things like bus trips and cooking oil.
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Knowing ourselves through our cousins Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have released the first known photographs of gorillas mating face-to-face in the wild.
Riding success... Australia's Alex Alfy Cater surfs a wave with a face height of 14 metres at a deepwater break known as Cow Bombie near Margaret River in Western Australia in this September 1, 2007 photograph. Cater's ride on this wave has won him on Wednesday the annual Oakley Surfing Life Biggest Wave Award, a competition to ride the biggest waves in Australasia between June 1 and February 1. Reuters
Are the truck owners justified in opposing the installation of speed governors in their vehicles? Should Karnataka take the lead or is there need for an uniform policy before it is implemented?
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