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...Getting away with it, or what sociologist Ashish Nandy calls "following the law of the jungle," is now the dominant mantra of India's social and economic life. Economists estimate that the true size of India's GDP would be double the official $481 billion if the country's vast black economy were also taken into account. And while the nation fares slightly better than adjacent Pakistan and Bangladesh in terms of corruption, this is hardly an upstanding neighborhood. Each year, Transparency International (TI), an anticorruption watchdog, evaluates the world's countries according to how graft-free their societies...
...monarch-butterfly caterpillars. Many of the caterpillars died. Losey himself is not yet convinced that Bt corn poses a grave danger to North America's monarch-butterfly population, but he does think the issue deserves attention. Others agree. "The problem with transgenics is the risks and hazards involved," says Ashish Kothari of Kalpavriskh, an Indian environmental group working to preserve the country's biodiversity. "We still don't know what this can do to other plants and organisms...
India, which in the early 1970s invested heavily in the purchase of Western refrigeration technology, today not only manufactures its own refrigerators but exports CFC compressors. Says Ashish Kothari of Kalpavriksh, India's best- known environmental group: "Our development strategies cannot be sacrificed for the destruction of the environment caused by the West." And then there is the cost of changing technologies. "India recognizes the threat to the environment and the necessity for a global burden sharing to control it," says Maneka Gandhi, former Minister of the Environment, who represented India at the Montreal Protocol negotiations. "But is it fair...
Steven A. Miller '71, grandson of a ?ormer dean of the Harvard Divinity school, was among four American ?uths arrested in the Beirut Airport August 16, carrying 50.6 pounds of ?ashish which they purchased for $575. ??e hash is worth $46,000 in the United States...