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POPSlast days of paradise? sinking Maldives look for a new land Mohamed Nasheed, a 41-year-old journalist and a former political prisoner, was among the fiercest critics of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ruled the Maldives for 30 years. Nasheed came to office last October in the country first multi party election. "No other citizens in the world in modern times have changed a 30-year-old regime so peacefully," Nasheed said in address. may he succeed to change sea level as well ? .. ))
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POPSWorld wants Obama as president: poll Will Americans choose to lead the world, or will they once again squander the goodwill that the world would love to heap on the USA. What will they do? The countries most optimistic that an Obama presidency would improve relations were America's NATO allies, including Australia (62 per cent).
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POPSMy God Can Beat Up Your God For CM regulars who have accused me on beating up on Christians I offer this clip about Hindu militants and their strife with Christians in India. Ain't religion fun...
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POPSHAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, INDIA! However your country is, however your politicians are, however the weather, the circumstances, the terror strikes, the price hikes, the conditions of living are... there is something that pulls and chains you strongly and emotionally to your mother country! Love you India!!!
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POPSThe Daughter Deficit In a family that expects to have seven children, the birth of a girl is a disappointment; in a family that anticipates only two or three children, it is a tragedy. Thus development can worsen, not improve, traditional discrimination. This can happen in other ways too. With the access it brings to cutting-edge technology, development can also offer more sophisticated and easier options for exercising old-fashioned prejudice. In China and in the north and west of India, for instance, the spread of ultrasound technology, which can inform parents of the sex of their fetus, has turned a pool of missing girls into an ocean. The birth of girls has long been avoided through infanticide, which is still practiced often in China. But there are even more couples who would abort a pregnancy than would kill a newborn.Ultrasound has been advertised in India as “pay 5,000 rupees today and save 500,000 rupees tomorrow.”
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POPSIndia's Goldfinger : Abhinav Bindra No individual gold has mattered so much to so many people in the history of Olympics... !!! i don't really understand the distant relation between India & the Olympics??
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POPSMinority Report is being materialized "The inventors of the technology claim the system can distinguish between people’s memories of events they witnessed and between deeds they committed" “As we enter more fully into the era of mapping and understanding the brain, society will face an increasing number of important ethical, legal and social issues raised by these new technologies,” Mr. Greely, the Stanford bioethicist, and his colleague Judy Illes wrote last year in the American Journal of Law & Medicine." Interesting article. Raises many questions; a) the easiest one is is it valid? why easiest because it can be one day answered, at least i assume so. b) if it is valid, should we use it? where is the line of privacy? should there be a line as such? i find it fundamentally challenging the human conceptual descriptions of what is self, identity, society and its relation. Fascinating. what do you think?