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...contemporary genetics. I’d like to have some grasp of string theory, which I don’t think I do. Also, I would love to know more languages. I know one dead language and one living language, but I don’t understand Spanish, Chinese, Urdu. There is supposed to be some wonderful poetry in Urdu, and you can’t really tell in translation. So many things I would love to know. I always think about biology and physics, and how it is an intrinsically valuable thing to understand how the universe works...
...Urdu phrase is Shadeed Garmi, extreme heat. It was 120[degrees]F last week in Delhi, 110[degrees] in Islamabad and well over 100[degrees] in Kashmir. For the Indian grenadiers of the J.K. Light Infantry regiment and the Pakistani troopers of the 15th Northern Division entrenched on opposite sides of Kashmir's Line of Control, the torrid weather made for itchy trigger fingers and an eagerness to join the battle--anything would be better than pointlessly sweltering in full battle gear. For Calcutta day laborers and Lahore rickshaw drivers, the unseasonably warm weather meant abandoning the bricklaying or cruising...
...Paris. The maverick businessman began his career at his family's glass company before switching his sights to food. Riboud ran Danone, which now has $12.7 billion in sales, until late in his 70s when he handed control to his son Franck. DIED. KAIFI AZMI, 87, award-winning Urdu poet, lyricist and father of Indian actress Shabana Azmi; in Bombay. A student of the progressive school of poetry, Azmi's writings often mirrored the socio-political scene in India where he was an advocate for a socialist society. DIED. YEVGENY SVETLANOV, 73, Russian conductor who led Russia's State Symphony...
...escape the death penalty. A don's life in a Bombay prison might be preferable to a life, however opulent, in a country toward which he feels no attachment and in which he lives in a state of constant fear. It was said of Sadat Hasan Manto, the great Urdu writer, that he started dying the moment he left Bombay for Pakistan; the same may be true for Dawood and Chotta...
...that's a paper considered friendly to the U.S.-led coalition. Pakistan's Urdu-language papers, Jang and Nawa-i-Waqt, have largely adopted a blame-the-victim approach to Sept. 11. "They regularly point out why some people are angry at America," says Riaz Ahmad, founder of the Pakistani American Congress. "They regularly remind everybody that if you solve the Israel-Palestine issue, those killings would stop...