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In India, many dogs don’t eat meat. They either grow up in vegetarian households or they hang around temples where only vegetarian food  is available.
 However, it is said that of you take one of these dogs and give it meat for a week, it can never go back to  a vegeterian diet. Metaphorically speaking, this [...]

By Niraj Chandra
This is a first-hand account of what happens before, during and after Carotid surgery, written from a patient’s point of view.
There are plenty of web-sites that describe the procedure  but most of this material is  written from a medical perspective and doesnt really describe what a patient goes  through. This account, it  is hoped, will give some [...]

By Niraj Chandra
I had a mini-stroke a few weeks back and, in retrospect, it was  entirely my  fault.
Nature had given me several warning signs over the years that I simply ignored. I did a little yoga from time to time and believed that it was enough to keep me out of serious trouble. Unfortunately, life doesn’t [...]

It is early December and the tourist season should be in full swing but not much is happening in this village in Goa.
 
Everyone is heavily in debt. Lucky, a rich Russian tourist arrives at a local hotel in this village.
 
He asks for a room, puts a $20 note on the reception counter, takes a [...]

Reason 1: More Incentives, Lower Costs
Ontario has  planned a great incentive program that should become law very soon. For each unit (kilowatt-hour) of  solar power that you produce you would be paid over 80 cents. For each unit of power you consume you pay far less, probably just 10% of this.  This magic is achieved using Feed In [...]

They may not be the best thing since sliced bread but they are pretty close, at least in the field of renewable energy. The Feed In Tariff s (FITs) have worked wonders in many European countries including Germany, which is now the second largest producer of solar energy in the world.

There has never been a better time to plan a solar panel installation for your home in Ontario. Prices of these panels are dropping fast and the Ontario government is offering incentives to promote their use as never before. The government’s plans are still at the public review stage but they are expected to be enacted into law within a few months.

Once the new rules come into effect, homeowners will be paid 80.2 cents for each kilowatt-hour of rooftop solar power that they sell to the grid; this is over ten times the going rate for power that they buy from the grid.