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...Jails were already packed with Maoist rebels and suspected sympathizers, so the students were taken to army barracks and to requisitioned gyms. Students weren't the only target: soldiers also strode into the cavernous, white stuccoed offices of the national government and hauled off government ministers, including Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, placing him and all other senior political figures in the country under house arrest...
...army of tens of thousands of migrant cooks, cleaners and drivers from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. (The same week, kidnappers freed three Indian truck drivers, three Kenyans and an Egyptian but killed three Turks.) The executions produced concerns of a different kind for Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who was accused of not doing enough to free the hostages. The deaths capped a rough fortnight in which the Maoists tried to cripple Kathmandu by forcing 12 corporations to close and threatening trucks supplying the city. (They relented a week later in the face of popular defiance...
...Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba tells TIME that "we are determined to give full protection to the industries and citizens" of Nepal, but the rebels' intimidation continues: last Friday, explosions rocked a Kathmandu government office and a guard post. Nepalese security analyst Indrajit Rai says cutting off Kathmandu could signal a possible endgame. "[The Maoists] are beginning to tighten their grip," he says. "Penetration [of Kathmandu] could follow the blockade, including sabotage attacks in Kathmandu. That's always been the plan." A full-scale siege is unlikely?the Maoists remain an outnumbered guerrilla force?but their war of harassment...
...couples considering in vitro fertilization (IVF), the high cost of repeated attempts and the chance of having multiple babies are often cause for hesitation. But new research at the Sher Institutes of Reproductive Medicine suggests that there could soon be a test to identify which embryos are most likely to be successfully implanted. Such a test would reduce the number of tries needed to achieve pregnancy and allow doctors to implant fewer embryos, lowering the odds of having quadruplets or triplets. Sher doctors found that embryos that produce a high level of the genetic marker sHLA-G gave women...
When King Gyanendra reinstated Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba last week, it seemed that Nepal's bumpy political merry-go-round had come full circle. The King first sacked Deuba in October 2002, accusing the Prime Minister of "incompetence" for failing to unite Nepal's fractious political parties and crush the kingdom's bloody Maoist insurgency. Since then, Gyanendra has appointed?and seen depart?two more Prime Ministers, endured months of violent protests against his royalist government, and watched the Maoist rebellion claim as many as 3,000 lives. Thus his decision to return Deuba to power was widely viewed...