On several occasions, most recently three years ago in Gujarat, parts of the country have been scarred by vicious communal violence.

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This research, published recently in Physical Review Letters, supports a theory put forward several years ago by John Abrahamson, a chemical engineer from the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand.

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Rather than the big strategic acquisitions made by predecessor Arun Sarin several years ago in emerging markets, Vodafone has recently done little more than increase its stake in a South African telecoms company and merge with Hutchison's 3 Australia.

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Another one, Majid Khan - this is a Pakistani who lived for several years in the U.S. as recently as 2002, and he was allegedly working with Khalid Sheik Mohammed on a plot to blow up gas stations in the U.S. Abu Zubaydah we mentioned at the top, al-Qaida facilitator.

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Some operators including Bharti recently increased their telephone-call charges for the first time in several years and cut down discounts to offset rising costs.

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Such assertions may have been accurate as recently as earlier this decade, but at present, and increasingly in the next several years, this conclusion will appear to be guided more by an overconfidence in American capabilities than by pragmatic realism.

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