Source: Times of India LONDON, ENGLAND, July 26, 2002: New research on acrylamide levels in cooked food has confirmed fears that french fries and potato chips may not just be clogging arteries and padding guts, they may be the main causes of cancer too. The findings reported in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal of the American…
GO TO SOURCE CHENNAI, INDIA, July 14, 2002: For some families in Tamil Nadu the expense of sponsoring a wedding for their daughters has become so high that many young ladies are unable to get married. Stepping in to assist these families, the state government under the direction of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa recently sponsored 1,008 marriages. Jayalalithaa said, “The…
GO TO SOURCE COLUMBIA, USA, July 17, 2002: Three researchers from Columbia University have co-authored a report that indicates children whose mothers return to full-time work, exceeding 30 hours per week, have lower cognitive and verbal development scores by the time they reach three years of age. This was in comparison to children whose mothers were stay-at-home mothers. Two factors…
Source: Associated Press LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, July 29, 2002: M. Night Shyamalan says he wanted to include more emotion in his new film than there was in his hit “The Sixth Sense” and its less successful followup, “Unbreakable.” The 31-year-old director says he moved away from the detached tone of those movies with “Signs.” “What I realized with ‘Unbreakable’ is…
GO TO SOURCE SAN FRANCISCO, USA July 18, 2002: Researchers — raising the hopes of clergy everywhere — say there are millions of young people like this from all religious backgrounds. “When my friends were kids, they went to church because they had to,” said the 17-year-old Gonzales “Now, most of my friends are involved because they want to be.”…
GO TO SOURCE USA, July 23, 2002: Physicians in the U.S. and abroad are conducting a variety of studies to determine whether yoga offers health benefits beyond general fitness and relieve symptoms associated with serious medical problems. Early results suggest that a regular yoga regimen can offer relief for patients suffering from asthma, chronic back pain, arthritis and obsessive compulsive…
GO TO SOURCE BHUJ, GUJARAT, INDIA, July 22, 2002: The world-famous Jain Temple of Bhadreshwar has been completely demolished because the structure was considered unsafe due to the extensive damage from last January’s earthquake. The main temple, which was nearly 2,500 years old, used to attract people from all over the country. “It is shocking not only for Jains but…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, July 20, 2002: More than 2,000 years after they first claimed to have set foot in India, the mystery of the world’s most obscure Jewish community — the Marathi-speaking, Bene Israel — may finally have been solved with genetic carbon-dating revealing they carry the unusual “Moses” gene that would make them, literally, the original children…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, JULY 21, 2002: As an indication of their intense and continuing interest in the aftermath of the Gujarat violence, eight MPs of Britain’s governing Labour Party have said they will visit the state to get “a clearer picture of the situation on the ground.” MPs, who include some from Muslim constituencies, such as Terry Rooney…
GO TO SOURCE DELHI, INDIA, July 28, 2002: Noted writer Sita Ram Goel’s important book, “In Defence of the Hindu Society,” is now available on-line at “source.” An excerpt: “But my heart bleeds when I see this great society being attacked by sheer barbarians whose only weapon is either a criminal theology masquerading as religion, or a materialist dogma sustained…