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Global disharmony
The recently concluded annual IMF-World Bank meetings of finance ministers and central bankers did not yield a breakthrough in ending or even moderating the intensity of the ongoing currency battles among countries. The result was not ...

Toxic threat to the Danube
The highly toxic red sludge that has reached the famed river Danube after a reservoir holding industrial waste burst in Hungary is a major environmental disaster, exposing major weaknesses in the European Union's environment protection regime. ...

Leader Page Articles
Lighting up lives, the right way
By R.K. Jain

A public sector company successfully took solar lighting systems to a sceptical tribal population in Bastar.

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A hidden language revealed
While the number of spoken languages continues to decline, at least one new one has been added to the inventory, though Koro too is on the brink of extinction.

TV time linked to psychological problems
Children who spend more than two hours a day at a computer or watching television are more likely than others to have psychological problems, scientists claim. Researchers found that 11-year-olds who clocked up several hours in front of ...

Sir Isaac Newton, the alchemist
The 17th century genius' other career rivalled and sometimes surpassed in intensity his devotion to celestial mechanics.

News Analysis
Corrections and Clarifications
The news report, “Guinness record: 50,300 saplings planted in an hour” (October 11, 2010), gave the name of the Chairman of the ‘Live to Love' initiative as Drukchen Rinpoche. It should have been Gyalwang ...

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