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...water in the long run,” one co-chair of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC), Spring Greeney ‘09, says. The environment may be happy, but student reaction, like the toilet handles, goes both ways. Some students, like Eliot resident Prithvi R. Shankar ‘09, are excited by the dual action of the flushometers. “Thus far, I’d put my use rate at about eighty-five to ninety percent,” he says. Others, however, are less enthusiastic. “I believe in traditional...
Short-range Prithvi I--150-km range/1,000-kg payload Prithvi II--250-km range/500-kg payload...
...lengthy comprehensive review of defense strategy. Pakistan is worried, though, by the aggressively nationalistic tone in New Delhi. On April 6, Islamabad test-fires its first intermediate-range missile, the Ghauri, named for a 12th century Muslim conqueror who defeated the last Hindu King of Delhi, Prithviraj Chauhan. Prithvi also happens to be the name of one of India's ballistic missiles capable of toting heavy payloads. With a range of 930 miles, the Ghauri can reach targets deep inside India, potentially bearing a nuclear warhead...
...atomic components on the shelf. One official close to the Prime Minister claims that India can produce a nuclear bomb "overnight," though Gandhi said in 1986 that it would take "maybe longer than . . . a few weeks" for India to deploy A-weapons. In February 1988 India successfully tested the Prithvi, a 150-mile-range ballistic missile that can carry a payload of 2,000 lbs., more than enough for a nuclear warhead...
These influences have always played a part in the politics of Nepal. Over two centuries ago, upon returning from yet another military campaign to unify his kingdom, the legendary warrior Prithvi Narain Shah observed the precarious nature of his country's foreign relations. Nepal, he wrote in his "Golden Sayings," was like "a yam wedged between two huge rocks": to the south lay the vastness of India, while to the north, the "Emperor of the Southern Sea" ruled the even greater dominion of China...