| Chidambaram cold-shoulders UT
The total outlay of budget estimate for Chandigarh for this fiscal has been rather disappointing, with a marginal increase of just Rs 12.63 crore from 2006-07 revised estimate. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram today hiked the Union Territorys budget outlay for 2007-08 to Rs 1102.63 crore. The revised estimate for 2006-07 had been Rs 1090 crore. In fact, the outlay for housing and urban development under the non-plan outlay has gone down considerably, from Rs 55.34 crore in the revised estimate of 2006-07 to Rs 34.82 crore during this fiscal. Besides this, the finance minister also did not come up with any specific provisions or schemes for the benefit of the Union Territory. The budgetary outlay for 2007-08 includes Rs 267.63 crore as planned and Rs 835 crore as non-planned budget.
Evolutionists At War Over Altruism’s Origins
An intellectual war of words has broken out between two of the world's leading evolutionists. Oxford University's Richard Dawkins and Harvard's Edward Wilson have gone head to head over the evolution of altruism in the animal kingdom, and whether it can have come about as a result of something called group selection.The subject matter of their dispute is social insects, particularly ants, which display a supreme form of altruism in that sterile workers lay down their lives for the benefit of their fertile colleagues in the colony. Conventional Darwinian theory could not really explain why one individual should sacrifice its own life, and its precious genes, for the benefit of another individual, unless it could be viewed in terms of group selection, when indi-viduals do it for the benefit of the colony or the species.
Crew cuts off shark's head to free man
If it had have been a couple of millimetres either way, and a little bit more of a voracious bite, it would've been a real mercy dash to stop him from bleeding out," Mr Hatchman told ABC Radio. The man was winched into the rescue helicopter about 10.40am AEST in a tricky operation, carried out in three- to five-metre swells. Share this article .
Romney pins Republican campaign hopes on business experience
I don't see how these two can do anything for the country when they keep bickering with each other. It's not about them, it's about US, it's not about who becomes the first woman president or the first black president, it's about AMERICA. If John Edwards, who is the only person who has a plan for this country, does not get the nomination, i am voting republican, because these two are too immature to lead this country. .
Going out in blaze of gory
He still hasn't acquired social skills, so Christian missionaries asking to be taken upriver into genocidal Burma get the cold, muscular shoulder. Then Rambo accepts a crucifix from Sister Sarah Julie Benz, and away they go. The Samaritans are dropped off, then captured by homicidal Burmese troops. Some are killed, and others offered to wild boars as snacks. Rambo gets the grisly news and joins a pack of hired guns in a rescue mission - mercenaries saving missionaries. "When you're pushed, killing is as easy as breathin'," may be Rambo's longest spoken sentence, summing up the rest of the movie. Hoo, baby, this is a violent mission, laced with lacerations, decapitations and enough Rambo arrows shot through heads to make Steve Martin an unofficial technical adviser.
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