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...weeks ago, in the supposedly secure confines of an affluent New Delhi suburb, a double murder occurred. Fourteen-year-old Aarushi Talwar and one of her family's servants were killed - their throats slit "with clinical precision," according to the police - in Noida, which lies just east of the Indian capital. With crime soaring in the area, the story might well have vanished quickly. But then the police began telling this story: Rajesh Talwar, a well-known dentist, killed his teenage daughter and their Nepalese helper, Hemraj, they claimed, to prevent them from blowing the lid off his affair with...
...Although India's great advantage in the global marketplace is its large pool of low-wage, educated, English-speaking university graduates, the nation's creaky infrastructure reduces its competitive edge by raising costs for entrepreneurs. Vikram Talwar, who heads ExlService, a Delhi-based outsourcing company that handles calls and processes forms for American credit-card and insurance companies, says his telecom costs are three times higher than they would be in a country like Thailand. India's backward public-transportation system means he has to hire cars to take his employees home at night, which adds another...
That's what Talwar and his group were trying to understand. "We wanted to determine how well rats understand incoming signals," he explains. "When we stimulated a region of the whiskers, they 'felt' a touch." Someday, says Mandayam Srinivasan, director of the M.I.T. Touch Lab, who helped show two years ago that monkeys could control robots by thought alone, "you could build a neural chip for paralyzed people, similar to a cochlear implant for deaf people, that uses brain signals to control prostheses...
...they reported last week in Nature, Sanjiv Talwar and his colleagues did just that, tickling the rats' brains via radio transmitter when the rodents moved in a direction the researchers wanted. But although Talwar's team got the rats to do things they ordinarily wouldn't--climb trees, go out in bright light, ignore the scents of food and females--it took a controller at the helm to make this happen...