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...lament by Pakistani scholar Tarik Jan that Muslims were the rulers of India before the British came and should have been restored to power when the British left calls for some historical perspective. At the advent of British rule, the Mughal empire was in decline, and most of the subcontinent was under the sway of the Hindu Maratha empire. After World War II, the Indian independence movement was led by Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu, and supported by people of all races and creeds. When independence was finally achieved, the new nation's founding fathers were predominantly Hindu. To their great...
...Your cover story provided a wonderful bird's-eye view of what people consume on different continents. It is informative and indeed a pleasure to read. With the advent of Western fast food and its onslaught in developing countries, the middle classes all over the world devour more and more food that has little nutritional value. And overeating results in unwelcome and dreadful obesity. We must be most careful in what we choose to eat. The bottom line is, eat simply and eat little. That is the road to good health and longevity. Tan Boon Tee, Chukai, Malaysia...
...same thing as repairing a broken part, which is often a short-term fix. In reman, once the disassembled bits are cleaned and reassembled, the result is as good as new. It's not a recent concept; Reman's roots go back around 100 years to the advent of the auto industry. And vehicle parts still comprise around 75% of the global market. But the industry is diversifying and picking up steam. "The growth potential for remanufacturing is enormous," says Günther Seliger, an engineer at the Technical University of Berlin. The entire reman industry is too sprawling...
...biography, University of London professor Lucy Riall explores how the Italian's legend spread across the globe. Though there was no YouTube to carry his impassioned orations, Garibaldi did have the fortune to emerge during an information revolution. With the advent of new mass-printing technologies, accounts of his life story and lithographs of his handsome image - often in early photographic formats - were widely dispersed. The struggle for Italian unity also featured some of the first battles to be followed on a near daily basis in newspapers, thanks to the invention of the telegraph. As his fame grew...
Eight years ago, I wrapped up my elementary education at Advent Episcopal Day School in Birmingham, Ala., but I remain an ardent Calvinist. I never read Calvin, my favorite philosopher, in a Harvard class, but the miniature, striped-shirt Buddha from the 1980s Bill Watterson cartoon still affects my thinking and writing today...