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Chief U.N. climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri, who shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize, said last month that "I am having nightmares" about the prospect of the low-cost car.
"Dr. Pachauri need not have nightmares," Ratan Tata said at the unveiling. "For us it's a milestone and I hope we can make a contribution to the country."
The basic model will sell for 100,000 rupees, but analysts estimate that customers could pay 20 percent to 30 percent more than that to cover taxes, delivery and other charges.
Tata has long promised that he'd create a 100,000-rupee car, a vow that was much-derided in the global industry but created a frenzy in India. On Thursday, nearly every media outlet in India focused on the live unveiling.
"A promise is a promise," Tata told the crowd.
'E911' Turns Cell Phones into Tracking Devices
Cell phones will be taking on a new role in 1998, beginning a slow transition to becoming user tracking devices. The outcome of this shift reassures some, but has others calling for restrictions on how cell-locating information can be used. The impending first phase of the FCC's rules is aimed at enabling emergency services personnel to quickly get information on the location of a cell phone user in the event of a 911 call. By April, all cellular and personal communications services providers will have to transmit to 911 operators and other "public safety answering points" the telephone number and cell site location of any cell phone making a 911 call. The aim of the law is to bring to cell phone users the same automatic-locating capability that now exists with wireline phones.
Explosions In The Sky: "It’s shocking that we have any fans at all"
I've loved working with him on these last two albums, ‘cause we really don't know what we're doing in the studio at all. We're very ignorant of recording techniques, and what this or that microphone does. We can give him descriptions like, ‘we need this part to sound more sunshine-y', and he can take that and know what we're trying to say. We've learned to communicate so well, and if he doesn't quite get it we can sit around and talk ‘til he does. “We ended up finishing the ten days [in the studio] but weren't happy with the mix, so we spent three more days in Dallas finishing up. It was great having that much time – it allowed John to bring out certain sounds of the studio which I think were beneficial to the record. I'm glad we had the time. We're very particular about how we sound – we wanted a live, raw sound, and the studio was geared for that.
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We got a call from Jim Twite of Brewster this morning that the Cumberland Farms near Route 28 and Bank Street, AND the Harwich Gas at 435 Route 28, Harwichport next to the 400 Club, are both selling regular for $2.29. The price is $2.32 on Rte 6 in Wareham, at both Lukoil and with the hippies... who now have a bedsheet hanging up in their office with "There Goes The Neighborhood " written on it. I love those people. 7-11 in Wareham, $2.32.... same with Exxon at the Buzzards Bay rotary.... ya know, the rotary that used to have the tugboat. $2.51 at the Citgo near the Christmas Tree Shop in Sagamore.... $2.65 at the Citgo on 28 South in Bourne.... $2.64 at the Citgo on 28A, Bourne/Falmouth line, with $2.89 diesel for all you mothertruckers.
Moss genome sheds light on plants' invasion of land
Although completing a genome provides science with lots of information, the completion of several genomes provides us with far more than the individual genomes do. Comparisons between the genomes of related organisms can provide us with information about the changes in gene content that accompany major evolutionary transitions. A great example of this is how the sequencing of the Chlamydomonas genome shed light on the origin of plants. Today, Science will be offering up an advanced publication that describes the sequencing of a moss, a relative of Chlamydomonas and descendant of the world's first land plants. The organism in question is a Bryophyte called Physcomitrella patens. The genome itself is an unassuming 480 Megabases and contains about 36,000 genes. Its significance resides primarily in the fact that Bryophytes are the modern descendants of the first muticellular plants that made their way onto land.
60 fresh cases of diarrhoea
As many as 60 new cases of diarrhoea and vomiting have been reported till this afternoon. Medical teams deployed by the health department in the affected colonies are providing treatment to patients while an elabor4 ate exercise is on to spread awareness about preventive measures against water-borne infection. District epidemiologist Sanjeev Hans told Ludhiana Tribune that 90 patients were reported at the OPD clinic being run at Sherpur Kalan under the supervision of Dr K.L. Kapoor, SMO, Sahnewal. Out of these, 60 were diagnosed with mild infection and symptoms of diarrhoea and vomiting. One patient with severe infection and chances of developing dehydration was referred to the civil hospital. .
The Vienna strangler
The body of a woman was lying face up, 20 yards west of the dirt road, underneath a laurel sumac shrub. Her face was obscured by maggots streaming out of her nose, mouth, eyes and ears. Her T-shirt was hiked up to her shoulders. Around her neck was a tightly knotted bra. Police identified her by her fingerprints. She was Sherri Long, a prostitute. In the pathologist's estimation, the victim had been dead for four to seven days. When detective Fred Miller at LAPD homicide heard the story of the girl murdered in Malibu, he figured the killer he'd been hunting had struck again. The killer had struck first on the night of June 19 1991. Twenty-year-old Shannon Exley had called her father before she went to work and told him she was trying to get her life in order. Her last customer picked her up on Seventh sometime after midnight and drove east, across the LA river to the Girl Scout Centre on Seventh and Fickett.
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