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...from the pack? Telematics can make driving easier and safer: voice activation means eyes stay on the road. Viasat and Tegaron both contact emergency services when prompted by a car's crash sensor and send help to its precise location. And nothing could be safer than driving the Buick Bengal concept car. Voice-activated control panels exist only as wraiths projected on the windscreen. The leather-covered dashboard is one big speaker, and there's no need to take your hands off the (wooden) steering wheel. When it comes on the market maybe it will walk on water...
...Asia's great temple cities, 800-year-old Pagan (see Detour), lies alongside the great Irrawaddy River in the central west. Upriver is the cultural capital Mandalay, in the east stunning Inle Lake offers towns on stilts and floating island farms, and peerless beaches fringe the Bay of Bengal and countless Andaman Sea islands...
...There are even a couple of deserters: Two senior ministers belonging to the Trinamool Congress resigned from Vajpayee's coalition government out of concern about the impact of the Tehelka tapes on forthcoming elections in their party's home province of West Bengal. Other coalition partners were frantically assessing the long-term political impact of the scandal...
...northwest and Assam to the northeast the census provoked a new battle over language and religion. Kashmir didn't want its status as a Muslim majority state undermined. In Assam the native Assamese wanted to ensure their numbers were not overtaken by immigrants from Bangladesh and West Bengal. In both states census officials faced death threats from militants if they did their job and suspension by the government if they didn...
...Right now his party may lose its grip on the state, which is where Ayodhya is located. And some believe that he may be trying to energize the BJP's base by reviving the issue. But it's a dangerous game, not least because his coalition allies in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu depend heavily on Muslim support, which Vajpayee's statement will alienate...