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...that the BJP had gone centrist and wouldn't allow its chauvinistic urges to disrupt a country discovering itself economically - or, at the very least, that the supposedly moderate Vajpayee could rein in the wilder elements of his group. But last week's violence was sparked by more Hindu chest thumping in Ayodhya, where militant Hindus want to build a grand temple on the site of a mosque destroyed by mobs in 1992, which was virtually guaranteed to set off trouble...
...Hong Kong company, Tom.com will have to race against globe-spanning titans if it is to realize its vision. The company has a war chest for acquisitions; Hutchison Whampoa granted Tom.com a loan of more than $100 million late last year. Previously dismissive bankers now believe that the company's target of achieving a half billion dollars in annual revenue by 2004 (a large sum by the standards of Asia's fractured media industry) can be met. "This is a very hot company," says an analyst at one investment house. "The European and American banks are telling their people...
...restore basic function to his left arm, Holgersen uses the Freehand System, a device that restores the ability to grasp, hold and release objects. During a seven-hour operation, surgeons at Denmark's National Hospital made incisions in Holgersen's upper left arm, forearm and chest. Eight flexible cuff electrodes, each about the size of a small coin, were attached to the muscles in his arm and hand that control grasping. These electrodes were then connected by ultrathin wires to a stimulator - a kind of pacemaker for the nervous system - implanted in his chest. The stimulator was in turn linked...
When Holgersen wants to pick up a glass, he moves his right shoulder upward. This movement sends an electrical signal from the position sensor, which is worn under his clothing, to the stimulator in his chest, which amplifies it and passes it along to the appropriate muscles in his arm and hand. In response, the muscles contract and his left hand closes. When he wants to release the glass, he moves his right shoulder downward and his left hand opens...
...with a campaign whose total war chest is less than some of her fellow candidate’s monthly expenditures, Stein labors under a decided disadvantage in financing...