Word: raman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is even nutritious alternative to Raman, the infamous monosodium glutamate noodles. Whole-wheat Raman is flavored only with sea salt, seaweed, mushrooms, garlic and ginger--but it costs more than twice as much as the chemical version...
Kalait is a collection of smashed huts, thorn trees and wrecked vehicles. The army's divisional headquarters is a green canvas tent captured from the Libyans. Inside, sitting with legs crossed on a carpet, is the general, Abdul Raman Berdabali, 47, looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes," he says, pointing to a heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade...
...word of the award on his birthday, is a slight, 5-ft. 6-in. scholar with a shy manner, a preference for black suits and a love of Tolstoy, Mozart and Beethoven. Born in Lahore, then part of India, to a prominent Hindu family (his physicist uncle, Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, won a Nobel in 1930), Chandra, as he is called by physicists everywhere, began the work for which he was cited more than a half-century ago. In 1930, when he was only 19 years old, he whiled away the long shipboard hours on his way to begin studies...