Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

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

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Roy, Santanu
: [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 committee does

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
of how many dollars it influences. Dilip === --- On Tue, 11/13/12, Chan Mahanta cmaha...@gmail.com wrote: From: Chan Mahanta cmaha...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA To: A Mailing list for people

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
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 not an attractive subject in USA. So, anything to do with science gets lower ranking than say

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Dilip Deka
Mahanta cmaha...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam@assamnet.org Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 8:50 AM Maybe so Dilip, but it looks terrible! While the world looks up to America's scientific might, we

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread amlan saha
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 cmaha...@gmail.com wrote: From: Chan Mahanta cmaha...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
=== --- On Wed, 11/14/12, Chan Mahanta cmaha...@gmail.com wrote: From: Chan Mahanta cmaha...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam@assamnet.org Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 8:50 AM Maybe so Dilip

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
: From: Chan Mahanta cmaha...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam@assamnet.org Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 8:50 AM Maybe so Dilip, but it looks terrible! While the world looks up to America's

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Dilip Deka
: amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam@assamnet.org Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 9:14 AM Except that, sometimes, loons like these can have real impact - recall the lack

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread amlan saha
= --- On Wed, 11/14/12, amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu wrote: From: amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Roy, Santanu
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. must

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Chan Mahanta
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 Never thought of it that way Santanu. While it does make some profoundly cynical sense, there is a downside to it though: Because

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Dilip Deka
due to lack of money. Dilipda --- On Wed, 11/14/12, amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu wrote: From: amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread amlan saha
--- On Wed, 11/14/12, amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu wrote: From: amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world assam@assamnet.org Date: Wednesday

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-14 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
stopped due to lack of money. Dilipda --- On Wed, 11/14/12, amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu wrote: From: amlan saha a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu Subject: Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA To: A Mailing list for people interested

[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:

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

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 cmaha...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I am greatly relieved to share a terrific piece of news that many of us Markhowas

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

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

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-13 Thread Chan Mahanta
I didn't get that, A. On Nov 13, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Alpana B. Sarangapani absarangap...@hotmail.com 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 cmaha...@gmail.com

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

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

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

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. On Nov 13, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Alpana B

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

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 absarangap...@hotmail.com wrote: I meant - if it were a hot topic,

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

2012-11-13 Thread Chan Mahanta
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, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Alpana B. Sarangapani absarangap...@hotmail.com wrote: But that would have made India's cases similar

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

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

Re: [Assam] Hot News from USA

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 a.s...@alumni.tufts.edu wrote: Ah, the ever amusing Science Committee, which