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...between the two Indias. The Maoists thrive in the "other" India - the one that is impoverished and left behind as one-fifth of the country's populace has begun to thrive, while the other 800 million suffer with growing resentment from chronic poverty and live without electricity, roads, hospitals, proper sanitation or clean water - the classic breeding ground for left-wing extremist violence. As Mao himself prescribed in 1927, "It's necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror in every rural area ... To right a wrong it is necessary to exceed the proper limit." Naxalism, as Indian Maoism...
...isn’t Life Sciences 1b, but it isn’t the pizza course either. After the students leave lab, the samples need to be shuttled carefully back to their proper locations elsewhere in the complex. The tables need to be cleaned. With a paper towel and solution he wipes over one bench after another after another in the deserted room. It’s an hour out of his day, and here and there, the hours...
Scrabble Trickster will include several deviations from the traditional rules. There will be squares on the board calling on players to draw cards, which may instruct them to forfeit a letter to an opponent or permit them to spell a word backward or use a proper noun. "Celebrity wars of words could now take place on a new battleground," Mattel spokeswoman Sarah Allen wrote in an e-mail. "It's another part of the process of expanding the brand - it's an evolution." In other words, you might be feeling pretty smug about laying down "Jay-Z" (23 points...
...about the relaxed regulations in the spin-off game. "They're dumbing down a classic," Keith Churcher, chairman of a Scrabble club in the British city of Reading, told the Daily Mail newspaper. "Players like myself have spent decades memorizing words in the dictionary." On Twitter, a fan lamented, "Proper nouns allowed in new version of Scrabble?! Unbelievable ..." (See a video on Twitter poetry in London...
...many points can players rack up by using proper nouns? Here are a few heavyweight combos you might be able to put together under the new rules: • Barack (14 points) • Kyrgyz (26 points) • Jacko (18 points) • Shakira (64 points if you include the 50-point bonus for using all seven letters) • Venezia (69 points, with the 50-point bonus...