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MIR SPACE ODYSSEY
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Remnants of Russia's Mir space station plunged into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, thundering spectacularly over Fiji with a huge smoke trail after engineers ended the laboratory's "triumphant" 15-year mission. Mission Control outside Moscow said a final signal at 12:07 am EST switched on engines for a 20-minute burst that irrevocably altered the station's trajectory, pitching it into a designated splash-down zone in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean. "We saw five or six fragments with a huge smoke trail that lasted for 10 to 15 seconds. (It was) followed some time later by a couple of sonic booms," said photographer Mark Baker from Nadi in the South Pacific islands of Fiji. "It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience." Australian officials said they believed Mir - which means both "peace" and "world" in Russian - ended up in an unpopulated part of the Pacific some 1,800 miles southwest of Britain's Pitcairn Islands. "It occurred in the exact area that the Russian space agency had predicted, between Australia and Chile," said Emergency Management Australia Managing Director David Templeman. "I'm relieved." he added. 
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An Israel based company, Bio Feed Ltd, would set up a project at Hisar to manufacture bio feed by using bio-conversion technology. This was announced by the Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala during his meeting with the Ambassador of Israel, David Aphek, who called on him in Chandigarh on Thursday. The bio feed would not only enhance the yield of milk cattle, but also improve their digestion thus making them more healthy. Haryana and Israel reaffirmed their faith in mutual cooperation, especially in the areas of agriculture, agro-industry, food processing, dairy, information technology and irrigation so as to further improve the quality of life of the people, David Aphek offered his country's collaboration in setting up of joint ventures in Haryana. The Chief Minister said that a 21-member delegation of progressive farmers of Haryana led by Agriculture Minister Jaswinder Singh had visited Israel in November last to acquaint themselves with the modern agricultural practices being adopted there, as both Israel and Haryana have similar climatic conditions.
Here's a parallel
'New Economy' in the making. Very soon, computer engineering
may give way to tissue engineering and software programming
to gene programming as a career option. After IT, the buzzwords
of the new millennium are biotech and genomics.
And, millennium gold rush will be gene mapping and cloning, with an interface between organic biotech and organic silicon infotech, promising a paradigm shift for pharmaceutical, healthcare and agriculture. Last month, global scientists have successfully completed identification of 3.2 billion of human genes or DNAs, the first step towards gene discovery. "It's a technological breakthrough," says Inder Verma, professor of genetics at The Salk Institute, US. With sequencing and locating the DNAs, process of drug discovery has been simplified. Identification of gene will enable to better understand the structure of proteins and lead to easier drug discovery, he told The Times of India. The next big leap forward will be knowing about the structure and behaviour of genes. There will be move towards discovering new families of genes and rush for patenting them, says Prof VS Chauhan, Director of International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. Both Chauhan and Verma were participating in a seminar on biotechnology, organised by Assocham.
The emerging high-tech world of bio-technology and cloning was blessed by Shri Shri Ravishankarji at an Assocham meet on biotechnology on Tuesday. While addressing the concerns of a 500-strong audience of scientists and industry, he said that there was no conflict between science and spirituality. "If God can play man, man can also play God. After all, wasn't man made in the image of God," said Shri Shri Ravishankarji. "In Indian though there is no objection to cloning, there is no ethical problem with it," he added. Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd Chairperson Indu Jain warned that "science can create only the outer shell - the roopa, but it is not easy to create the inner spirituality. It is very difficult to clone the world of within". "The rules of the outer world are very different from the rules of the inner world," she emphasised. Re-emphasising that there are no contradictions between science and religion, Ms Jain said, "Science believes that everything is nothing but energy, while in religion everything is nothing, but God." She said that science in its highest form has been practised in India since ages. "The only difference is that whereas Einstein restricted himself to matter, messiahs like Mahavira went beyond the material world." |
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