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The Writer

From a gang member and murderer to the best-selling author of children's books. Prison has changed Stanley Williams all right. Read on ...

With the recent arrest of a man, the British police claims to have cracked the mystery of the theft of Enigma, the ultra-superior code machine used by Germans during World War II. But has it really? Read on ...

The Borders of the Internet

A ruling by a French judge, ordering a popular search engine to block out sites on the internet dealing in sale of Nazi material in France, has raised a storm of controversy in the World Wide Web. Read on ...

To Russia with Love?

Is importing 'Teletubbies', the British television series for toddlers, to Russia, such a good thing for Russian children? Opinions differ. Read on ...

Language Split

People are up in arms in Sri Lanka. Besides creating the existing social divide between the Tamils and the Sinhalese, the government's decision to discard English as a State language, may have caused the civil war.That is why the government has hurriedly reintroduced English language courses in the country. Read on ...

This Park Bench has an Address

It's a park bench in the British town of Bristol. And it's been given a postcode to enable the six vagrants who sleep on it, register for free medical care. Read on ...

New Year in South Pole

A team of eight young people have planned an adventurous new year for themselves. They have started walking from Canada, towards the South Pole. They intend to usher in the new year 2001 at the Pole. Read on ...

The Grand Head Hunt

A record six million people have fanned out all over China, to count the number of people in the country. The Chinese government wants to check if the target set for the year 2000, is in place. But is it already too late? Read on ...

Bead Calculator

The abacus is the ancestor of the modern day calculator. But unlike the computer, it is relatively simple to operate as it consists of vertical rods on which wooden beads slide freely. Some people still swear by the abacus even today, and use it to solve some tough calculations. Read on ...

Messing Up, Alphabetically

To signal their newly-independent status from the rule of the Soviet Union, countries of Central Asia abandoned the Russian script and adopted other scripts. But nine years down the line, they've realized that changing scripts is somewhat more difficult than changing governments. Read on ...