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Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Ustad Shafaat AhmedKhan perform a concert of Indian classical vocalmusic. Sackler Auditorium, 7 p.m. $17 and $12 forstudents with...
...Arvind Sharma Birks Professor of Comparative Religion McGill University Montreal...
With the aid of radiochemist Pankaj Sharma of the University of Rochester, he compared the amount of the isotope in the midden urine with contemporary values, and concluded that cosmic-ray bombardment was 41% more intense 21,000 years ago than it is now. This suggests that the earth's magnetic field, which acts as a partial barrier to cosmic rays, was then considerably weaker. One implication: terrestrial life had been -- and could someday again be -- exposed to higher doses of dangerous radiation from space...
...Chandra Sharma plays Sweet Sixteen with feeling. Throughout the film, her face is the portrait of wanness and innocence. But in the end, Sweet Sixteen is broken. Drug dealer and pimp Baba (Nana Patekar) beguiles her into a realization of sexuality, though he treats the process as unemotionally as if her were training colts. But what can you expect from a man who decides to whip his pusher in front of a Western journalist who has been interviewing him? Patekar's Baba is fierce and unpleasant, cold and calculating in a way that sends proverbial tingles over the spine...
Numerous in the area until man destroyed their nesting sites, the turtles will help reestablish the ecological cycle. Officials say the creatures pose no danger to live users of the Ganges, though the project is not without risks. "Poaching will be our biggest problem," says Rajendra Prakash Sharma, chief wildlife warden of Uttar Pradesh. "Turtle meat is considered a delicacy...