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Constructive opportunity
The Bush administration has bowed to reason and common sense in agreeing to join Iran and Syria at a regional conference aimed at stabilising Iraq. The conference, the first of its kind to be held inside or outside Iraq since the United States's ...

What about money for science?
With loud demands for more governmental funding and less taxation ringing in their ears, Finance Ministers sitting down to prepare the budget tend to have little time and attention for the needs of science. From time to time, budget speeches do a ...

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Opening western minds to international crosswinds
By Ramesh Thakur

Why do the major newspapers not organise a reciprocal exchange of columns — we will publish as many of your articles per month as you take of ours?

News Analysis
Divers discover huge underground river
By Jo Tuckman

CAVE DIVERS in Mexico have discovered what they claim is the world's largest submerged cave system — effectively an underground river — beneath Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Stephen Bogaerts and Robbie Schmittner had spent four years ...

Corrections and Clarifications
In an AFP report "Age cannot wither [Sanath] Jayasuriya" ("Sport", March 1, 2007), published in some editions, it should have been stated that Jayasuriya has completed 10,000 ODI runs , and not overs. In The Hindu Crossword 8849 ...

Macau — Las Vegas of the east
By Pallavi Aiyar

In 2006, Macau overtook the Las Vegas strip in gambling revenues when its 24 casinos raked in $6.9 billion. Between 2002 and 2006 some $25 billion in foreign investment streamed into Macau. The foreign direct investment into India in 2005 was $5.5 bi llion.

Russia increasing role in Middle East
By Vladimir Radyuhin

Moscow hosts Hamas political boss for the second time in a year.

A bit of unacknowledged borrowing
At a time plagiarism has become a major problem in academia as well as journalism round the world, it is interesting that the Indian Ministry of Finance's Economic Survey 2006-07 has borrowed, without acknowledgement and more or less ...

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