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...fleet of trucks, but will also outsource some of its transport needs. Eventually, trucks will be fitted with radio or satellite transmitters that will allow a central control room to track locations and cargo-a far cry from the bullock carts and rusty trucks that currently link producers and customers. Still, even the fanciest trucks must slow for bureaucracy. The country's 35 states and territories run separate tax and duty systems. To get from Bangalore to Hyderabad, about 550 km away, for example, the driving time is about 16 hours, but stops at border and tax-inspection checkpoints...
...goal, says Reliance's Asthana, is to "ultimately have the ability to link up all the country's markets in a ... seamless supply chain. That will reduce wastage, give the farmers more money and consumers better quality produce." But building the infrastructure may be the easy part. Convincing government and those invested in the old system that it's time for a change is still a major struggle. While the national coalition government in New Delhi says it is committed to reform as a way of helping farmers boost their incomes, its left-wing members are horrified by the prospect...
...fighting continued, it was common to link Fatah al-Islam to the Syrian regime, and to see the group as a tool in the hands of Damascus to foment chaos in Lebanon and head off a U.N. tribunal that may prosecute Syrian officials for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. But there is a longer-term worry that goes beyond any possible Syrian connections-that Fatah al-Islam is one of a group of armed, extremist factions that have been spawned in the triangle of political instability from Baghdad to Gaza to Tripoli. Those groups include Iraqi...
...Students who drink on a regular basis appear to also be having more sex, but FM is still trying to find a link between these two seemingly unrelated facts. Beer goggles what...
...While seemingly unrelated, the Iowa outbreak renewed the debate about whether there was a link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and autism, a developmental disease resulting from a disorder of the central nervous system. In 1998 a smallish study of 12 autistic children raised questions about a connection, but subsequent studies have cast doubt on any relationship between the vaccine and autism, which, according to the National Institute of Health, affects 2-6 children per 1000. Still, examining search phrases that contained "autism" during the peak weeks around early May 2006 revealed that Internet searchers' concern about...