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Buddhism provided philosophical backdrop to:
Theory of Life in the Universe
THE Earth is continually changing. In another
eight billion years the sun would become a red giant and swallow the
Earth and the inner planets. Long before that all life on Earth
would have become extinct, with the boiling off of the oceans and
the evaporation of our atmosphere, perhaps two billion years from
now.
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‘Engagement - yes; Presence on the ground - No!’
A panel discussion titled `Sri Lanka: The case
against an International Monitoring Mission’, was held recently on
the sidelines of the seventh session of the Human Rights Council in
the Palais des Nations. It was attended by over 45 representatives
from states, civil society organisations and the media.
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Asia shows way to fight dengue
Clarissa Poon was one of an estimated 50 million
people who contracted mosquito-borne dengue fever last year. She
spent an agonising week on a drip in a Bangkok hospital as she
battled the potentially deadly disease.
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