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Breaking News
Top Stories
India to sell helicopters to U.S. customs (IANS/Yahoo)
Peace accord begins - First truce for India, Pakistan in
14 years (The Olympian) (Charleston Post-Courier - Registration required)
(Cleveland Plain Dealer) (NJ Star Ledger) (Billings Gazette, MT)
India,Pakistani armies begin cease-fire (Sacramento Bee) (Atlanta
Journal Constitution) (News Journal, TX) (Burlington County Times,
PA)
(The Ledger, FL) (Salt Lake Tribune) (Oakland Tribune) (SF
Chronicle)(Provo Daily Herald, UT) (Seattle Times) (Rocky Mount Telegram)
(LA Times,Registration required) (Philadelphia Inq.)
Nuclear-armed
India, Pakistan declare truce (The Nashua Telegraph)
Pakistan, Kashmir
and India breathe easier with cease-fire (Seattle P-I)
Pakistan,
India find agreement on a truce in Kashmir region (Arizona
Republic)
(Washington Post)
US welcomes Kashmir ceasefire (Space
Daily)
Muslim exodus from United States unravels tight-knit enclaves
(Biloxi Sun Herald) (Central Daily Record, PA)
Business
Presbyterian minister helps Dell see the light
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
State agency cancels controversial
outsourcing deal (Computer World)
Firm targets on-hold sales
(Nashville City Paper)
U.N. could restrict content on Internet
(Washington Times)
Commentaries/Editorials/Letters to
the Editors
Editorial: Putting Hoosiers first (Fort
Wayne Journal Gazette, IN)
Commentary: India's democracy test (Seattle
Times)
Editorial: We've traded jobs for cheap goods (Sarasota Herald
Tribune)
Commentary: Jobs come and go (Town Hall,
DC)
Defense
Pakistan Hopes Ceasefire
Heralds Dialogue with India, Official Says
(Defense News - Subscription
required)
Entertainment /Culture
An
Indian dances 'kathak' at KES and school dances back (The
Clinton
Recorder)
Politics
Mayor
Promotes Chicago To Indian Business Group In New Delhi
(WBBM,IL)
Other
India vacation
camp for stressed-out elephants (Chicago Sun-Times)
Rule car crash
killed Qns. teen (NY NewsDay)
Hindus get life sentences for killing
Muslims during riot (Seattle Times)
AIDS spreads at staggering rate,
U.N. says (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
(Boston Globe) (Washington Post) (NJ Star
Ledger)
Fasting fakir flummoxes fhysicians (Washington
Times)
Students Mourn Moscow Dormitory Victims (Duluth News
Tribune)
Net immigration rises by millions (Washington
Times)
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Top Stories
India to sell helicopters to U.S. customs
(IANS/Yahoo)
Bangalore, Nov 26 (IANS) India's state-owned Hindustan
Aeronautics Ltd
(HAL) has clinched a multi-million dollar deal to sell 10
advanced light
helicopters (ALHs) to the U.S. customs through its Israeli
marketing
partner. Negotiations are in an advanced stage to finalise the deal
for
supplying the civil variant of the helicopter called Dhruv, HAL chairman
and
managing director N.R. Mohanty told IANS here Wednesday. "Our
strategic
partner, the Israeli Avionics Industries (IAI), is in talks with
the U.S.
customs authorities to work out the details. HAL will be able to
supply the
10 copters in a year's time once the order is placed," he
declared. Though
Mohanty was unwilling to disclose the value of the order,
aviation sources
claimed it could be over Rs. 3 billion.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/031126/43/29tbb.html
Peace accord begins - First truce for India, Pakistan in 14 years
(The
Olympian) (Charleston Post-Courier - Registration required) (Cleveland
Plain
Dealer) (NJ Star Ledger) (Billings Gazette, MT)
India and
Pakistan began a cease-fire between their armies at midnight
Tuesday -- the
first such accord in 14 years. The agreement, however, did
not cover Indian
security forces and Islamic militants in Kashmir, and there
was no indication
how long it would last or how effective it would be. The
two nations' armies
-- which trade machine-gun and mortar fire almost
daily -- would observe the
cease-fire along their entire frontier, the
governments said. That includes
the international border that covers several
western states in India, the
Line of Control dividing Jammu- Kashmir, and
the frontier at the Siachen
Glacier. The start of the cease-fire coincides
with the Eid-al-Fitr festival
that ended the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
In Islamabad, Pakistan Foreign
Ministry spokesman Masood Khan confirmed
military chiefs agreed on the
cease-fire, which he said was indefinite and
"a positive
development."
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031126/frontpage/158785.shtml
http://www.charleston.net/stories/112603/wor_26india.shtml
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/.xml
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-12/.xml
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/11/26/build/world/40-indiapakistan.inc
India,Pakistani armies begin cease-fire (Sacramento Bee) (Atlanta
Journal
Constitution) (News Journal, TX) (Burlington County Times,
PA)
(The Ledger, FL) (Salt Lake Tribune) (Oakland Tribune) (SF
Chronicle)
(Provo Daily Herald, UT) (Seattle Times) (Rocky Mount Telegram)
(LA Times,
Registration required) (Philadelphia Inq.)
Villagers on
both sides of the India-Pakistan border celebrated Wednesday
the first full
truce in 14 years between the armies of the nuclear-armed
neighbors, visiting
relatives and places of worship. The cease-fire, which
began at midnight
Tuesday, does not cover Indian security forces and Islamic
militants in
Kashmir, and there was no indication how long it would
last.Villagers on both
sides of the India-Pakistan border celebrated
Wednesday the first full truce
in 14 years between the armies of the
nuclear-armed neighbors, visiting
relatives and places of worship. The
cease-fire, which began at midnight
Tuesday, does not cover Indian security
forces and Islamic militants in
Kashmir, and there was no indication how
long it would last. But there
was no firing from midnight Tuesday along any
part of the 700-mile frontier,
said Indian army headquarters. The start of
the cease-fire coincided with the
Eid-al-Fitr festival that ended the
Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, and
there was not even celebratory gunfire
to mark the holiday, said Indian army
Lt. Col. Mukhtiar Singh in the
Muslim-majority Kashmir region of the
Himalayan territory.
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/world/story/1067302p-7480174c.html
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V0299.AP-India-Pakistan.html
http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V0299.AP-India-Pakistan.html
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/.html
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031126/API/311260525
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Nov/11262003/nation_w/114521.asp
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1791556,00.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/26/MNG1J3B0KI1.DTL
http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7252
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/140287p-124500c.html
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/content/news/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V0012.AP-India-Pakistan.html;COXnetJSessionID=1EH6t4r3VNx5kf5mHlW7BOikfq3zNztE8uE3JWJcoqWGTvAZrAha!?urac=n&urvf=
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-ceasefire26nov26,1,621204.story?coll=la-home-world
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/7350921.htm
Nuclear-armed India, Pakistan declare truce (The Nashua Telegraph)
The
Indian and Pakistani armies agreed to stop firing at each other across
their
frontier, including in disputed Kashmir, starting at midnight Tuesday
in a
further easing of tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
The
cease-fire, to mark the Eid-al-Fitr festival that ends the Islamic month
of
Ramadan, is the first between the two armies since an Islamic
militant
insurgency began in India’s portion of divided Jammu-Kashmir in
1989. The
cease-fire, however, does not include fighting between Indian
security
forces and Pakistan-based militants in an insurgency that has killed
more
than 65,000 people in the past 14 years. In the past, militants
have
declared unilateral cease-fires for the Eid holiday, but they did not do
so
this year. The largest Pakistan-based militant group fighting in
India’s
portion of the divided Himalayan province said its men would keep
on
fighting. “This will not make any difference for mujahedeen
activities,”
Salim Hashmi, a spokesman for Hezb-ul-Mujahedeen, told The
Associated Press
from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled
Kashmir. “The
mujahedeen will continue their operations.”
http://nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=25&SubSectionID=379&ArticleID=94350
Pakistan, Kashmir and India breathe easier with cease-fire (Seattle
P-I)
Indian and Pakistani military commanders agreed yesterday to a
cease-fire
along their common border, including the volatile and heavily
militarized
front line in the disputed territory of Kashmir, officials in
both countries
said. The truce, which was to take effect at
midnight last night, is the
first formal cease-fire between the nuclear-armed
rivals since a separatist
insurgency began in Indian-controlled portions of
Kashmir 14 years ago.
India accuses Pakistan of arming, training and
financing Islamic militants
who are carrying out the insurgency, which has
killed at least 35,000
people. Pakistan says it provides only political and
moral support for the
campaign, which it calls an indigenous freedom
struggle. A spokesman for
the Indian Foreign Ministry, Navtej
Sarna, announced the cease-fire
agreement yesterday in New Delhi. A Pakistani
military spokesman, Maj. Gen.
Shaukat Sultan, confirmed it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/149905_india26.html
Pakistan, India find agreement on a truce in Kashmir region
(Arizona
Republic) (Washington Post)
India and Pakistan agreed
Tuesday to a cease-fire in the disputed
Himalayan region of Kashmir, adding a
significant boost to a peace effort.
The Indian Foreign Ministry said senior
military officers from both
countries had agreed to a cease-fire along the
Line of Control, which
separates their forces in Kashmir, as well as on the
Siachen Glacier in the
Himalayas, where fighting has flared sporadically
since 1984. The
cease-fire, proposed Sunday by Pakistani Prime Minister
Zafarullah Khan
Jamali, was scheduled to take effect at midnight Tuesday.
India and Pakistan
routinely trade artillery and small-arms fire, often
killing civilians.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1126india26.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ANov25.html
US welcomes Kashmir ceasefire (Space Daily)
The United States on
Tuesday welcomed a ceasefire by India and Pakistan
along the demarcation line
of disputed Kashmir state, saying it hoped the
nuclear rivals would follow up
with more peace moves. Secretary of State
Colin Powell called Pakistan's
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmud Kasuri and
Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant
Sinha to congratulate them on the
ceasefire, which came into force at
midnight Tuesday. The agreement came
after Pakistani Prime Minister
Zafarullah Jamali announced Sunday a
unilateral ceasefire in Kashmir starting
from this week's Eid al-Fitr
festival marking the end of the Ramadan holy
fasting
month.http://www.spacewar.com/2003/vs2nna.html
Muslim exodus from United States unravels tight-knit enclaves (Biloxi
Sun
Herald) (Central Daily Record, PA)
On the first anniversary of
the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Shakeel Ahmed
loaded his wife and five
children into the family's green 1994 Mercury
minivan, their years in America
reduced to a pair of cardboard boxes stuffed
with children's
clothes. The rest they left behind: a television,
furniture, pots
and pans, blankets and pillows. Ahmed figured he had little
time to waste
because word had spread through the sweet shops and mosques
around Devon
Avenue, the heart of Chicago's South Asian community, that the
federal
government was deporting illegal immigrants from predominantly
Muslim
countries. As he drove down Devon for the last time, Ahmed's
thoughts
turned to a cabdriver friend who had left with his family just two
days
before. Another companion they'd played cricket with in Washington Park
had
left months earlier.Now it was his turn.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/7354877.htm
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/7354877.htm
Business
Presbyterian minister helps Dell see the light
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Personal computer giant Dell Inc.
responded to a raft of complaints from
corporate customers this week and
stopped routing their calls to a tech
support center in India. But that
doesn't help a dissatisfied customer from
Rochester, Beaver County, who's
been fighting Dell for about four months.
Ron Kronk tried to order a PC in
late July and wound up getting repeatedly
double-billed -- despite endless
calls for help to Dell's customer-service
center in India. "What about
individual customers, the little people? I'm
sure others have encountered
this," said Kronk, 56.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/business/s_166957.html
State agency cancels controversial outsourcing deal (Computer World)
The Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD) has canceled
a
controversial $15.2 million IT development contract with TCS America
that
would have brought up to 65 Indian contract workers to overhaul a
system
used to process unemployment claims and taxes.
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outsourcing/story/0,10801,87537,00.html
Firm targets on-hold sales (Nashville City Paper)
As record labels try
to find creative ways to put music in front of
potential customers, one
Nashville company is preparing to take advantage of
a captive audience —
telephone callers waiting on hold. A public relations
strategist and a
corporate travel veteran have teamed up to form Sterling
Enterprise Group,
marrying two odd partners: a call center business with an
entertainment
company. Sterling Consulting is gearing up to operate four
call centers in
India and Africa that are expected to employ 10,000 agents
over the next two
years, starting next spring. Sterling Entertainment
Associates operates the
SEA Records label, Fura Books, music publishing
companies, and a concert
division. The record label has already signed the
country act Wild Horses and
plans to sign two other major artists by the end
of this year.
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section=10&screen=news&news_id=28666
U.N. could restrict content on Internet (Washington Times)
Groups
working to maintain the structure of cyberspace said giving the
United
Nations oversight of the Internet is a frightening proposition,
particularly
if the world body is pressured by some countries to regulate
online content.
Developing nations, including Brazil, China and India, are
pushing for the
United Nations or one of its bodies to regulate the
Internet, perhaps as soon
as 2005. Diplomats from more than 60 countries
plan to take up the issue at
the U.N. World Information Summit in Geneva
next month and have said they
hope for an agreement by 2005.
http://washingtontimes.com/business/r.htm
Commentaries/Editorials/Letters to the
Editors
Editorial:
Putting Hoosiers first (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN)
From the
resulting howls of protest, any politician would have recognized
the terrible
blunder committed when the state of Indiana awarded an
India-based company a
$15.2-million contract to help out-of-work Hoosiers.
That Gov. Joe Kernan had
the political savvy to cancel the contract is no
surprise, but his additional
effort to see that it doesn't happen again is
worth noting. Kernan and Lt.
Gov. Kathy Davis last week announced a new
initiative, "Opportunity Indiana,"
to review and reform the state's
procurement procedures. "While we want the
best product at the lowest price,
we also want to make sure that Hoosier
companies have every chance to be a
part of what we do at the state level,"
Kernan said. "As leaders, we have an
obligation to build the capacity of our
businesses here at home." The
state's Department of Administration has been
charged with overseeing a
working group to offer recommendations for reforms
and to help give Indiana
businesses a chance to win state contracts. Later,
it will look at ways to
ease licensing for minority- and women-owned
businesses so they can qualify
to work on state government jobs. Tata America
International won the
computer contract over two much-higher bids from
U.S.-based companies, but
no Hoosier companies submitted bids. After the
contract was publicized, some
Indiana vendors complained that they were
unaware of the opportunity. In
fact, the Department of Workforce Development
solicited proposals from 84
companies, both in-state and out-of-state. A
pre-bid conference in November
2002 attracted 76 company representatives,
with five companies ultimately
submitting bids. Two later withdrew.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/7355006.htm
Commentary: India's democracy test (Seattle Times)
True democracies
have deeply embedded institutions that work properly even
(and especially) in
crisis, and leaders and voters who make sure that these
institutions are able
to do their work. The Earth's most populated
democracy, India, may be on the
verge of showing a world that's also roiled
by ethnic and religious tensions
exactly how this is done. This
comparatively young democracy (birth: 1947)
faces a defining moment in its
political evolution. In the province of
Gujarat last year, Hindu-Muslim
rioting led to many deaths. Now the challenge
for India's leaders and
institutions is to achieve justice for the victims
within Indian law. This
will be no easy task. While India is a secular
democracy where tolerance is
commonplace, violent religious clashes are not
uncommon. This important
nation will require political and institutional
leadership of a very high
order to meet the Gujarat challenge. The critical
issue is twofold. One is
whether the norms of secularism will be observed in
deed as well as in
theory. India's prime minister, for his part, says he's
not in doubt.
"Indian ethos regards secularism as equal respect for all
religions," Atal
Bihari Vajpayee said recently during an observance of
Universal Brotherhood
Day at his residence in New Delhi. "But even this is
being criticized these
days. However, those opposed to such a concept of
secularism would not
succeed."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/_plate26.html
Editorial: We've traded jobs for cheap goods (Sarasota Herald Tribune)
A recent article in a leading national magazine, Fortune, says that new
jobs
are coming back, not here in the United States but overseas, in
countries
such as India. The economies of these countries are, relatively
speaking,
booming. Many high-tech-related service jobs also are growing
overseas. The
article asks why we're so unhappy here. Obviously because most
companies
doing the hiring are international mega-corporations. They hire
foreigners
because they can pay lower wages. In their communications work
with this
country, via phone and Internet, these employees pass themselves
off as
Americans. It seems deceptive in terms of service issues. We
here
in our beloved country should deal whenever we can with domestic
businesses
that hire our own citizens . Phooey on these giant
corporations that are so
happy to profit from our purchases, while they cut
us off at the feet
job-wise at the same time! Also, how many of these
mega-corporations avoid
paying lots of taxes through their offshore corporate
tax shelters, leaving
the rest of us to cover the void?
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031126/OPINION/311260708/1029
Commentary: Jobs come and go (Town Hall, DC)
In 1970, the
telecommunications industry employed 421,000 switchboard
operators. In the
same year, Americans made 9.8 billion long distance calls.
Today, the
telecommunications industry employs only 78,000 operators. That's
a
tremendous 80 percent job loss. What should Congress have done to save
those
jobs? Congress could have taken a page from India's history. In 1924,
Mahatma
Gandhi attacked machinery, saying it "helps a few to ride on the
backs of
millions" and warned, "The machine should not make atrophies the
limbs of
man." With that kind of support, Indian textile workers were able
to
politically block the introduction of labor-saving textile machines. As
a
result, in 1970 India's textile industry had the level of productivity
of
ours in the 1920s.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20031126.shtml
Defense
Pakistan Hopes Ceasefire Heralds Dialogue
with India, Official Says
(Defense News - Subscription required)
Pakistan on Nov. 25 expressed hope that a new ceasefire in the
disputed
region of Kashmir would lead to new dialogue with its South Asian
rival,
India. “We do hope that the ceasefire would lead to a dialogue,”
Pakistan
military spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan told Agence
France-Presse after
both sides announced they would observe a ceasefire
commencing late Nov. 25.
“Fortunately, this time India responded positively
to the unilateral
ceasefire offer by Pakistan.” http://www.defensenews.com/
Politics
Mayor
Promotes Chicago To Indian Business Group In New Delhi (WBBM,IL)
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley spent Tuesday talking with Indian
industry
leaders about his experiences as mayor of the America's third
largest city.
Daley visited the headquarters of the Confederation of Indian
Industry, a
consortium of business executives from across India based in New
Delhi,
where he made a speech and took questions from a small group of
industry
representatives and news media. Daley cited Chicago's high standard
of
living, its effective municipal services and his
administration's
business-friendly policies -- such as tax breaks and other
financial
incentives for new businesses -- as reasons Indian firms should
look to
Chicago to gain a foothold in North America. "Chicago has a favorable
tax
structure and a local government that works with business, not against
it,"
Daley told the gathering. "Schools, housing, industry, crime
prevention,
infrastructure and beautification are the vital organs of a
successful big
city," he added. "When they're working together, they make the
city a great
place to live -- and to do business." Since Sheila Dikshit, the
chief
minister of Delhi state, visited the midwestern American metropolis in
2002,
New Delhi and Chicago have been official sister cities. The mayor
arrived in
India on Friday and visited the Taj Mahal in Agra over the
weekend.
http://www.wbbm780.com/asp/ViewMoreDetails.asp?ID=30989
Other
India vacation camp for stressed-out elephants
(Chicago Sun-Times)
A monthlong holiday camp for stressed elephants
hasd in southern
India where overworked animals will be able to
socialize over first-class
food under the expert attention of veterinarians.
Around 55 elephants are
attending the government-run camp that has justd on the edge of the
Madhumalai forest in the southern state of Tamil
Nadu. Most of the
stressed-out animals at the rest and recreation camp are
owned by temples,
where they perform ceremonial roles. A handful are employed
by the forest
department to clear jungles and help with logging. Officials in
the state
capital Madras, also known as Chennai, said Jayalalitha Jayaram,
the chief
minister, pushed the idea for the elephant holiday camp after
reports that
many had started behaving badly by attacking their handlers
because of being
overworked. http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-elephant26.html
Rule car crash killed Qns. teen (NY NewsDay)
The death of a
16-year-old girl run over while lying facedown on a busy
Queens street was
ruled an accident yesterday even as the circumstances
remained a mystery. An
autopsy on Shadaf Khanu found she died of injuries
consistent with being
struck by a car, the medical examiner said yesterday.
But it's unclear how
Shadaf came to be slumped in the street before being
hit by a car about 5p.m.
Monday on Eliot Ave. near Wetherole St. in Rego
Park. Police yesterday found
no evidence of foul play or any witnesses who
saw or heard a struggle. Shadaf
emigrated from India seven months ago to
join her family in Queens and was a
good student, her relatives said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/140287p-124500c.html
Hindus get life sentences for killing Muslims during riot (Seattle
Times)
A court sentenced 12 Hindus to life imprisonment for killing a
group of
Muslims during last year's religious riots in western India that
left more
than 1,000 people dead, an official said yesterday. Rioting swept
through
Gujarat last year after Muslims set fire to a train carrying Hindu
religious
pilgrims, killing 60. Most of the more than 1,000 riot victims were
Muslims.
Gujarat's Hindu nationalist government and police were accused of
failing to
stop attacks on Muslims and, in many cases, turning a blind eye
when Hindu
mobs attacked and killed Muslims and set their homes on
fire.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/_wdig26.html
AIDS spreads at staggering rate, U.N. says (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
(Boston
Globe) (Washington Post) (NJ Star Ledger)
The global AIDS epidemic is
entering its deadliest phase so far with high
numbers of new HIV infections
being matched by unprecedented numbers of
deaths in many southern African
nations, according to a U.N. report released
Tuesday.Saying there were no
signs of the epidemic abating, the Joint United
Nations Program on HIV/AIDS,
or UNAIDS, found that one out of every five
adults in southern Africa is
infected with HIV, and two countries, Botswana
and Swaziland, recorded an
infection rate of 39 percent of adults last
year.UNAIDS estimated that a
record 3 million people will die this year from
AIDS-related illnesses — a 10
percent jump from 2002 estimates — and that a
record 5 million people will
become infected with HIV, which causes AIDS.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/7350711.htm
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2003/11/26/un_says_aids_deaths_at_new_high/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ANov25.html
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-12/.xml
Fasting fakir flummoxes fhysicians (Washington Times)
Physicians
are reportedly baffled by an Indian holy man who claims not to
have eaten or
drunk anything for decades, but who is in perfect health.
Prahlad Jani, who
is more than 70 years old, was placed under constant
observation for 10 days
in an Indian hospital. The hospital's deputy
superintendent, Dr. Dinesh
Desai, told the BBC the holy man -- or fakir --
did not consume anything and
"neither did he pass urine or stool," yet he
remained in good mental and
physical condition. Physicians say most people
can live without food
for several weeks, but the
average human can survive for only three to
four days without water.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/r.htm
Students Mourn Moscow Dormitory Victims (Duluth News Tribune)
Grieving students and friends piled carnations in front of a blackened
Moscow
dormitory Wednesday, paying their respects to 37 foreign students
killed when
a fire raged through the dilapidated building.The death toll
from the blaze
rose to 37 when a Peruvian student died in a hospital. The
18-year-old,
identified by his embassy as Giancarlo Paitamala Saenz, had
suffered multiple
fractures and severe internal bleeding from the pre-dawn
fire Monday at the
dormitory of the Peoples' Friendship University in
Moscow, hospital officials
said.Nearly 200 victims remained hospitalized.
Some survivors were in grave
condition with spinal injuries. Many others
broke bones or were poisoned by
carbon dioxide from the fire. Many suffered
frostbite after fleeing
half-naked into the bitter cold and lying in the
snow waiting for
ambulances.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/7355364.htm
Net immigration rises by millions (Washington Times)
Net immigration
to the United States rose dramatically by 1.4 million in
each of the past two
years, about half a million of whom were listed as
illegal aliens, a report
said yesterday. The Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR) said if
the numbers remain unchanged, this decade
will mark the most massive wave of
immigration in American history, with 45
million immigrants — about 14
percent of the country's total projected
population — forecast to be residing
in the United States by 2010. The
extensive FAIR report also said the figures
show that immigration totals are
unrelated to the labor needs and economic
conditions in this country.
Despite a weak U.S. economy and rising
unemployment in the United States
since 2000, the report said, immigration
significantly has outpaced record
levels seen in the 1990s and has shown no
sign of abating. "Advocates of
mass immigration justified the record-breaking
immigration levels of the
1990s on labor-market demands during the high-tech,
bubble-driven economy of
that era," FAIR executive director Dan Stein said.
"One would have expected
that when the bubble burst, the overheated
immigration would have cooled
along with the economy.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/r.htm
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