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...quicker, heavier, longer" mantra, rail bosses have also been able to improve services. For example, in 2006 IR began offering special express trains on certain routes such as the run between New Delhi and Agra, home of the Taj Mahal. Tourists making day trips to India's most popular tourist attraction now can book online and sit in comfortable seats during a trip that takes less than two hours instead of almost three. Even on longer, slower trips the catering, which is now outsourced, has improved...
...uninterrupted since independence. The composition of electoral constituencies ensures that voters from the rural heartland, where support for the governing alliance is strongest, wield more power than citizens from urban areas, where opposition parties hold some sway. The weighted system explains why the National Front won 64% of the popular vote in 2004 yet managed to fill 90% of the seats in Parliament. In five decades, the country has had exactly five Prime Ministers - all leaders of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), the Malay-based party that dominates the National Front. "Malaysia is a heavily controlled state," says Steven...
...Kiel is facing a lawsuit because of an article he published in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA). In the study, Kiel, a gerontologist, said that hip protectors are not effective in preventing injuries among elderly patients, a claim challenged by HipSaver, a popular hip protector manufacturer, in a suit filed in Norfolk Superior Court on Feb. 15. Representatives for HipSaver accuse Kiel of deliberately using one particular type of hip protector that is inferior to many of the protectors on the market and concluding that all hip protectors were not effective. HipSaver?...
Nader’s efforts to diminish the vibrancy of the Democratic race reinforces the popular perception of him as a vanity candidate. So long as Nader suggests that the two major parties are indistinguishable, he will do his own values a disservice...
...second generation, which was 22% less likely to be violent. Similar trends have been seen in New York and Miami, both of which have large immigrant enclaves. "Immigrant communities are often responsible for revitalizing the urban neighborhoods that they live in," Sampson says. The irony of people's popular misconceptions, he adds, is "that the longer one is exposed to American culture, the more likely you are to participate in violence...