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...chair in circles. Later, in a restaurant, a waiter passed the cork from a newly opened bottle of wine under Stephen's nose. The computer beeped, and the voice proclaimed, "Very good." Hawking was just being polite; the tracheostomy also deprived him of his sense of smell. Says Indian-born Amarjit Chohan, one of Stephen's nurses: "There is an aura around him, a spiritual atmosphere. He is going to end up as a saint...
...Indian-born Batra, 44, who teaches at Southern Methodist University, begins his book by raising the specter of the Great Depression of the 1930s: "I believe a disaster of the same, if not greater, severity is already in the making. It will occur in 1990 and plague the world through at least 1996." He details parallels between the Roaring Twenties and the Soaring Eighties: feverish speculation, financial deregulation and a shaky banking system...
...kidnapers. Finally, on Saturday night, a well-organized band of machine-gun-toting thugs pulled off the week's most daring escapade. Disguised as Lebanese police, they drove unchallenged onto the campus of Beirut University College, gathered four professors, three of them Americans and the other an Indian-born man carrying a U.S. passport, and drove off, holding guns to the heads of their stunned prey...
...abstruse branch of mathematics known as linear programming. It is the kind of math that has frustrated theoreticians for years, and even the fastest and most powerful computers have had great difficulty juggling the bits and pieces of data. Now Narendra Karmarkar, a 28-year-old Indian-born mathematician at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., after only a year's work has cracked the puzzle of linear programming by devising a new algorithm, a step-by-step mathematical formula. He has translated the procedure into a program that should allow computers to track a greater combination of tasks...
...Indian-born Author Salman Rushdie, 36, puts up. Those unfortunate gobblers are not the only fanciful creatures in Shame, his third novel. The book is crammed with the grotesque and improbable. Many pages are devoted to introducing the hero, Omar Khayyam Shakil, and the three sisters who all claim to be his mother. Then he grows fat and disappears from the scene for long stretches. "I am a peripheral man," he announces near the end. "Other persons have been the principal actors in my life story...