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An 80 per cent success story

An ancient grammar system helps computers to translate Indian languages into HIndi.

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Oases of fertility

The Sarvodaya Ashram in Uttar Pradesh has helped regenerate of hectares of saline land.

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How to manage water

Simple techniques can make villages self sufficient in water supply.

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When ignorance was not bliss

Several villagers of Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary were nearly sent to jail because of a squabble with forest officials over a leopard's claws.

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The mystery of the missing steel

Indians once produced a superior steel that metallurgists have not been able to duplicate even today.

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An appeasement for French farmers

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French peasants fearing withdrawal of subsidies under the European Community's agricultural policy must be relieved to find the just concluded GATT did not ask for any radical changes.

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A bonanza for European farmers

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The Community Agricultural Policy has become synonymous with the prosperity of European farmers.

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What about the Third World?

US and European Community representatives monopolised the GATT negotiations, while Third World countries seemed to have been sidelined.

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TRADITION IN ACTION

DR COMPUTER As scholars expounded on the significance of traditional sciences, a computer in the pandal outside prescribed lifestyles to the more practical-minded. The diagnostic system was a

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Draught animals and welfare

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In fifty developing countries, which contain half of the total human population of the world, there is a heavy dependence on draught animals as an energy source. These animals are used for agriculture operations in 52% of cultivated areas of the world, as well as for hauling 25 million carts. This situation is likely to continue for at least another fifty years. The work performed annually by these draught animals would require 20 million tonnes of petroleum, valued at US$6 billion, if it were performed by motorised vehicles.

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