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Letters-84: TV Serials

It is undeniable that TV is a companion to home-makers. At the same time, it has insulated us from neighbours. Many thefts and robberies could have been averted had there been a healthy relationship among tenants in flats. Though producers claim that their serials portrayed how good prevails over evil, it is the vices that get registered in the minds of the young. As the visual medium has a strong influence over impressionable minds, serial-makers should desist from producing screenplays that negatively impact on society - R.Sridharan, Chennai.

Courtesy: Letters to the Editor, The Hindu, Chennai, April 27, 2010.

Grateful thanks to Mr.R.Sridharan and The Hindu, India's National Newspaper.

S and T Watch-58: A New Electrical Fault-fixing Technology

A new generation automated fault-fixing technology remotely locates and isolates an electrical fault wherever it occurs in a power distribution network and restores current in seconds, an answer to lengthy power outages.

Source: The Hindu, Madurai, May 6, 2010

For a detailed article from Eureka Network:
http://www.eurekanetwork.org/showsuccessstory?p_r_p_564233524_articleId=298060&p_r_p_564233524_groupId=10137

Grateful thanks to The Hindu, India's National Newspaper and Eureka Network.

A Thought for Today-359:

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities - J.K. Rowling

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A Thought for Today-358:

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over - Paul Meyer

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India Watch-18: First Indigenous Warship

India on April 29, 2010 commissioned 'INS Shivalik', its first indigenously built stealth warship with sophisticated features to hoodwink enemy radars, and gained entry into a top club of developed countries having such capability.

Source: The Times of India, Chennai, April 30, 2010.

Grateful thanks to The Times of India.

A Thought for Today-357:

I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I served and found that in service happiness is found - Tagore

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Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny - Emerson

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Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground -
Theodore Roosevelt

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable – S.J.Harris

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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it - James Russell Lowell

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Eyecatchers-147: 4 millions jobs vanished in 2009 in EU - AP

Official data show that some 4 million jobs disappeared in the European Union last year, when countries where struggling to emerge from recession.

Excerpt from "4 million jobs vanished in 2009 in EU" - News item in the Deccan Chronicle Chennai edition of March 15, 2010. quoting AP as its source.

Grateful thanks to Deccan Chronicle and AP.

Health News-25: Mutations leading to type 1 Diabetes found

In a breakthrough which may pave the way for effective treatment for blood sugar, scientists have cracked the 40-year-old mystery of how certain genetic mutations lead to type 1 diabetes.

Excerpt from "Mutations leading to type 1 diabetes found" in The Times of India, Chennai edition of April 22, 2010.

For a detailed article from Science Daily:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100419173004.htm

Grateful thanks to The Times of India and Science Daily.