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Well I got the brand new Compaq Evo D230 at workplace with Win XP and Win 2K pre-loaded by our sys admin guys . . . Fast breezy system Pentium 4, 1.8 GHz 256 MB SDRAM. - This was on 19th Feb 2003

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I came across Wikipedia for World Parliament of Religions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. - The World Parliament of Religions is an interfaith conference that was first held in Chicago in 1893 and again in 1993. At the latter meeting it was decided to hold a Parliament every five years, and in 1998 one was convened in Cape Town.

Paper on Broadmindedness of Hinduism As Amartya Sen reemphasized - dont become a frog in a well ( Kupamanduka ); Indian science, arts and every form of heritage gained and enriched itself to such levels of excellence not in isolation but because of its intense interaction with men from other parts of the world. MORE ON THE SWAMI AT THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS . . .

Goodbye, Dolly - Euthanasia to first cloned sheep. Dolly, the famous cloned sheep has been put to death after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease and follows earlier reports that she was prematurely aging, including developing arthritis. [ DETAILS & DISCUSSIONS ] EXCERPTS FROM SLASHDOT : You see there's this very important substance called telomeres attached to the end of chromosomes. As cells divide, the telomere caps become shorter, and eventually the cells stop dividing and either malfunction or die. It stands to reason that, if you start off with an adult cell, you already have shortened telomeres and will therefore have a reduced lifespan. Telomeres aren't just any substance. They're DNA. The end of a chromosome has short repeating sequences of a few base pairs (ex: AATTAATT, etc.) which are not all replicated when a cell duplicates its genome and divides. This presumably acts as a molecular "clock" for the organism to keep track of its...

I will tell you a little story. You have heard the eloquent speaker who has just finished say, "Let us cease from abusing each other," and he was very sorry that there should be always so much variance. But I think I should tell you a story which would illustrate the cause of this variance. A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. Of course, the evolutionists were not there then to tell us whether the frog lost its eyes or not, but, for our story's sake, we must take it for granted that it had its eyes, and that it every day cleansed the water of all the worms and bacilli that lived in it with an energy that would do credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on and became a little sleek and fat. Well, one day another flog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well. "Where are you form?" "I am from the sea." "The sea! How ...

UNDERSTANDING THAT THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTENT IS PRIME A raging argument on the Power Laws in WEBLOGS & Blogging community . . . CERTAIN PEOPLE GETTING MORE ATTENTION OR ARE THEY? A good comment . . .

The AERO-INDIA 2003 came to an end with its magnificient display of the Flying Machines. SUKHOI 30 MKI WAS A TREAT INDEED WITH ITS LANGUID TACTICS AND SUDDEN SHARP GUSHES OF SPEED, ALBEIT FROM MY BINOCULARS . . . Learn about the Sukhoi More on the SUKHOI - Youll find plenty of links here. The others seemed to pale out in front of it. I am infatuated/possessed/obssessed by this plane since I saw it in the Aero-India show 4-5 years back . . .

A tragedy - lots of questions and some answers - Columbia FAQ Some of the most common questions about the Columbia tragedy, and the answers as best as Space.com could give

BAD NEWS FOR SPACE EXPEDITIONS Tragic end to Columbia - Kalpana Chawla, an astronaut of Indian origin was on board the 2nd time . . . Updated Information On Shuttle Tragedy [from SLASHDOT]