Office software

You know what the most useful software would be ?
You should be able to capture any action that any of your team-members commits on all the shared databases and then use that event to trigger reminders/emails.

Geography bee crowns 2006 king - Education - MSNBC.com

Geography bee crowns 2006 king - Education - MSNBC.com: "Neeraj Sirdeshmukh, 14, from Nashua, N.H., came in second. He won a $15,000 college scholarship. Third-place contestant, Yeshwanth Kandimalla, 13, of Marietta, Ga., won a $10,000 college scholarship. The other seven finalists won $500 each."

This new generation fo Indians who take full advantage of the American education system seem to be winning all the bees. I wonder if this says something about the future of the US. Will the Indians figure more dominantly as leaders in various domains, more than today.

A Vision of Pale Beauty Carries Risks for Asia's Women - New York Times

A Vision of Pale Beauty Carries Risks for Asia's Women - New York Times: "Sociologists have long debated why Asians, who are divided by everything from language to religion to ethnicity, share a deeply held cultural preference for lighter skin. One commonly repeated rationale is that a lighter complexion is associated with wealth and higher education levels because those from lower social classes, laborers and farmers, are more exposed to the sun.

Another theory is that the waves of lighter-skinned conquerors, the Moguls from Central Asia and the colonizers from Europe, reset the standard for attractiveness.

Films and advertising also clearly have a role. The success of South Korean soap operas across the region has made their lighter-skinned stars emblems of Asian beauty.

Nithiwadi Phuchareuyot, a doctor at a skin clinic in Bangkok who dispenses products and treatments to lighten skin, said: 'Every Thai girl thinks that if she has white skin the money will come and the men will come. The movie stars are all white-skinned, and everyone wants to look like a superstar.'"

Iqbal - Awesome movie

Nagesh Kukonoor rocks !!
sahi movie banaya hai. very inspiring , beautiful settings, great acting, wonderful song (aashaayein)
BEAUTIFUL !!

AIDS | Bitter fruit | Economist.com

AIDS | Bitter fruit | Economist.com: "LIME juice is famous in medical history. Sailors—particularly British sailors—drank it to keep scurvy at bay. But the past few years have seen another use mooted. This is that, if applied to the vagina, it might protect a woman from HIV infection, and thus from AIDS. On April 24th a group of researchers met at the Microbicides 2006 conference in Cape Town to discuss the matter.

Though a lime-juice douche sounds a ghastly idea, women have been putting acids into their vaginas for millennia, in the hope of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Indeed, cleaning with lime juice is common practice in parts of Africa. Of 200 prostitutes surveyed in 2004 in the Nigerian city of Jos, 163 said they rinsed with lemon or lime juice before or after sex to prevent pregnancy and infections. The question is, are they sensible to do so?

Acids immobilise sperm and kill pathogens, including HIV. (Laboratory studies have shown that a one-in-five dilution of lemon or lime juice inactivated 90% of HIV in just two minutes.) And, in addition to its high citric-acid content, lime juice has a second attractive feature: it literally grows on trees."