Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
sure of. >> Are federal grants flowing for independent stem cell research in places >> like M.D.Anderson Center? I heard that some of their programs stopped due >> to lack of money. >> Dilipda >> ======== >> ---

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2012-11-14 Thread amlan saha
d due > to lack of money. > Dilipda > > --- On Wed, 11/14/12, amlan saha wrote: > > > From: amlan saha > > Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA > > To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the > world&q

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2012-11-14 Thread Dilip Deka
due to lack of money. Dilipda --- On Wed, 11/14/12, amlan saha wrote: > From: amlan saha > Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA > To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" &

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2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
> > -Original Message- > From: assam [mailto:assam-boun...@assamnet.org] On Behalf Of Chan Mahanta > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:55 AM > To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world > Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA > >

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2012-11-14 Thread Roy, Santanu
world Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA Never thought of it that way Santanu. While it does make some profoundly cynical sense, there is a downside to it though: Because these are the people who control the hearings and the pathway to funding of basic research and higher education that the Govt.

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2012-11-14 Thread amlan saha
it. > Dilip > = > > --- On Wed, 11/14/12, amlan saha wrote: > > > From: amlan saha > > Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA > > To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the > wor

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2012-11-14 Thread Dilip Deka
Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA > To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" > > Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 9:14 AM > Except that, sometimes, loons like > these can have real impact - recall the > lack of federal do

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2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
>> >> --- On Wed, 11/14/12, Chan Mahanta wrote: >> >>> From: Chan Mahanta >>> Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA >>> To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the >> world" >>> Date: Wednesday, November

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2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
=== > > --- On Wed, 11/14/12, Chan Mahanta wrote: > >> From: Chan Mahanta >> Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA >> To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" >> >> Date: Wednesday, Nov

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2012-11-14 Thread amlan saha
p if there was a way to remove some of these chairs and put them > in the basement. > Dilip > === > > --- On Wed, 11/14/12, Chan Mahanta wrote: > > > From: Chan Mahanta > > Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News f

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2012-11-14 Thread Dilip Deka
Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA > To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" > > Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 8:50 AM > Maybe so Dilip, but it looks > terrible! While the world looks up to America's scientific > migh

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2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
[dilipd...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:46 AM > To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world > Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA > > Think of the reason why the science committee gets such members. > To start with, science is no

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2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
measured in terms of how many dollars it > influences. > Dilip > === > > --- On Tue, 11/13/12, Chan Mahanta wrote: > >> From: Chan Mahanta >> Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA >> To: &qu

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2012-11-14 Thread Roy, Santanu
ubject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA Think of the reason why the science committee gets such members. To start with, science is not an attractive subject in USA. So, anything to do with science gets lower ranking than say economy, finance, health,social security etc. Thus, the science committe

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2012-11-14 Thread Dilip Deka
influences. Dilip === --- On Tue, 11/13/12, Chan Mahanta wrote: > From: Chan Mahanta > Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA > To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world"

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2012-11-13 Thread Chan Mahanta
If it is not theater of the absurd, I can't imagine what would be! Faat diya boxumoti paatale' lukaon! ( Please Mother earth, split asunder, so I can hide from this shame). On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:35 PM, amlan saha wrote: > Ah, the ever amusing Science Committee, which counts among its membe

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2012-11-13 Thread amlan saha
Ah, the ever amusing Science Committee, which counts among its members the likes of - *Todd Akin* - "If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” - *Paul Broun* - “All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang

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2012-11-13 Thread Chan Mahanta
s/stories/1112/83743.html#ixzz2C9cTy4MW > > >> From: cmaha...@gmail.com >> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:20:51 -0600 >> To: assam@assamnet.org >> Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA >> >> I didn't get that, A. >> >> >> >> On Nov 13, 2

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2012-11-13 Thread Chan Mahanta
He is still a Congressman you know, lame duck as he is. But it is appalling to see the pea-brained people that are in the Science Subcommittee. It is a pathetic joke. On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:02 PM, "Alpana B. Sarangapani" wrote: > I meant - if it were a hot topic, then!. : ) > I can se

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2012-11-13 Thread mc mahant
of the rich.> mm Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83743.html#ixzz2C9cTy4MW > From: cmaha...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:20:51 -0600 > To: assam@assamnet.org > Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA > > I didn't get that, A. > >

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2012-11-13 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
I meant - if it were a hot topic, then!. : ) >>> I can see why Bobby Jindal is urging HIS people to “stop being the stupid >>> party” . What about him, in spite of being Rhodes Scholar being a gung-ho supporter of the NRA? I thought Todd Akin lost. Can he still serve at a (any) Congressional C

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2012-11-13 Thread Chan Mahanta
I didn't get that, A. On Nov 13, 2012, at 3:14 PM, "Alpana B. Sarangapani" wrote: > But that would have made India's cases similar to that, stronger, don't you > think, C-da? : ) > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, "Chan Mahanta" wrote: > >> Oh, darn A! >> >

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2012-11-13 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
But that would have made India's cases similar to that, stronger, don't you think, C-da? : ) Sent from my iPhone On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, "Chan Mahanta" wrote: > Oh, darn A! > > Looks like I had been losing sleep over nothing. > > But anyway, it was fun reading about it. Where else c

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2012-11-13 Thread Chan Mahanta
Oh, darn A! Looks like I had been losing sleep over nothing. But anyway, it was fun reading about it. Where else can we get such interesting news from? I mean other than Missouri. Did you know our very own Todd Akin serves at the Congressional Science Sub-committee? I can see why Bobby Jind

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2012-11-13 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
It has (or is) never been a hot topic even to think or discuss about it, let alone be tensed about it. : ) Sent from my iPhone On Nov 13, 2012, at 12:29 PM, "Chan Mahanta" wrote: > Folks, > > I am greatly relieved to share a terrific piece of news that many of us > Markhowas have been swe

[Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-13 Thread Chan Mahanta
Folks, I am greatly relieved to share a terrific piece of news that many of us Markhowas have been sweating under since November 6: That the leader of the Secessionist movement from Texas is a real Gandhian, says "---We walk in the same vein as Gandhi and those guys" For more on it, look up: