News Desk: A French national was allegedly beaten up by the passengers on board the Amritsar-bound Sachkhand Express near Karnal station in Haryana and received serious head injuries. Later, he died in a hospital.

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The TTE has been arrested in connection with the case. However, he said that he is innocent claiming he had not seen Frank Wilfred in the train

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Chinese astrophysicist Fang Lizhi died unexpetedly on April 6, 2012, at the young age of 76. I first learned of it via an unusual source: The New York Review of Books.

That a Chinese astrophysicist’s passing is noted in a prestigious American literary journal is a testament to how Fang crossed boundaries between the two cultures of humanities and science, and was much admired, even loved, in both. Fang was a frequent contributor to the Review, which also says quite a lot about the man. That he was still thought of as young by me and others was a testament to the vitality of his ideas.

Most of my readers will not know who he was, but they will resonate with those ideas. They are important ideas. You see, Fang wrote about science as a force for human rights.

Anyone who has read Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America, will be familiar with the argument that science is never partisan, but it is always political, and that recent attacks on science are a sign of a slide into authoritarianism.

Like democracy, science is inherently antiauthoritarian, a top-wing activity. It opposes authoritarianism because it takes nothing on faith. It says “show me the evidence, and I will judge for myself.” This tends to be politically inconvenient for kings, popes and ideologues, who want to assert their views without having to provide evidence. They prefer to simply provide loudly voiced and compellingly argued opinions.

One of the things the book covers is how scientists were jailed and even executed in many countries when their ideas were viewed as politically inconvenient. Science is always political, because it creates new knowledge, and new knowledge always challenges vested interests, whether they are church interests or those of business or government.

Chinese intellectuals were “struggled against”

That happened a lot in China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s. Chairman Mao liked to celebrate his peasant roots, much like some Tea Party types and people like Rush Limbaugh loudly celebrate their anti-intellectualism today. Limbaugh calls academics “effette, arrogant intellectuals.”

Like Limbaugh, Mao was suspicious of scientists and academics, and viewed them as “dangerous antirevolutionaries.” They were “struggled against,” banished to work camps to be reeducated, or they were jailed or shot. Mao closed the universities to all but a select few – for a decade. He ignored the advice of scientists in making national policy and as a result, he brought on the worst famine in human history replica watches, in which more than forty million Chinese died.

Fang Lizhi was one of those scientists that Mao and his minions didn’t like very much. Like my friend Fan Shen, who has written the most compelling book on the Cultural Revolution I’ve ever read, Fang Lizhi was persecuted and confined to a brutal reeducation camp to learn Mao Zedong Thought and the ways of peasants. His was at a coal mine in southern Anhui province.

Lacking any scientific equipment replica watches, Fang decided his only hope of staying intellectaully alive was to specialize in theoretical astrophysics which, he told his friend the sinologist Perry Link, was “the only field of physics I could pursue without equipment.”

After Mao died in 1976, sanity and some limited forms of intellectual tolerance began to slowly return to China. The universities were slowly re-opened, and Fang became vice-president of China’s prestigious University of Science and Technology in Anhui.

Fang said the same sort of thing I do about science, tolerance and freedom, but he said it far more eloquently. In a 1996 essay he co-wrote with Link about a book by sinologist Lyman Miller, he was perhaps at his best. The words could be applied to antiscience authoritarians in America today, including postmodernist false balance journalists, cell phones cause brain cancer activists, anti-vaccine activists replica watches, biblical literalist evangelicals in their war against reproductive control and evolution, and climate change deniers.

1. “Science begins with doubt,” whereas in Mao’s China students were taught to begin with fixed beliefs.

2. Science stresses independence of judgment, not conformity to the judgment of others.

3. “Science is egalitarian”; no one’s subjective view starts ahead of anyone else’s in the pursuit of objective truth.

4. Science needs a free flow of information, and cannot thrive in a system that restricts access to information.

5. Scientific truths, like human rights principles, are universal; they do not change when one crosses a political border.

Fang stood up against authoritarians in the Deng Xiaoping government that followed, and like Jon Stewart, he used satire to mock them in his physics classes. His students loved it, but the authoritarians in the Communist Party didn’t. They fired him from his job and blacklisted him in universities across China, but it only made him more popular with students everywhere. Fang became one of the central figures behind the 1989 student uprising that culminated in the Tiananmen Square demonstrations.

After the massacre, Fang and his wife, the equally courageous physicist Li Shuxian, became public enemies number one and two in China. They took refuge in the US Embassy, where they became trapped by the Chinese government as house prisoners for more than a year until the Japanese government negotiated their release. When Fang died earlier this month, it was as a physics professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Science is a humanitarian force. Fang Lizhi lived it. By living it he became great. His clarion voice will be missed.

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As most Americans basked in the warmest, sunniest March in half a century, economists stared at the skies with dread:

Could good weather portend bad news for the economic recovery?

Several analyses show that the mild winter boosted job growth by as much as 75,000 positions — an artificial inflation that economists say will be paid back in the coming months. Translation: The recent surge in hiring may not be as strong as it looks.

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For economists, it meant a statistical nightmare.

Typically, these bumps in demand are evened out through a process called seasonal adjustment. That allows researchers to compare one month’s economic activity with the next for a more accurate picture of the nation’s health. But this year’s weather was so abnormal that those models fell short, and economists are now scrambling to figure out how much of growth over the past three months was simply due to a glitch in their systems.

“When the weather does not follow a normal seasonal pattern, then the seasonal adjustment cannot adjust for it,” said Chris Varvares, senior managing director and co-founder of Macroeconomic Advisers.

Varvares’ firm estimates that 30 percent of the 227,000 jobs added in February were the result of warmer weather. An analysis by Goldman Sachs found that the average monthly job growth between December and February was actually 210,000 when weather is factored in, not 245,000.

Economists are quick to note that even the revised numbers aren’t bad — they’re just not great. And that may help explain why recent data on consumer spending, manufacturing and jobs have looked rosier than actual economic growth would suggest.

Forecasts for the nation’s gross domestic product during the first quarter hover around 2 percent — a middling number at best. Somewhere, there is a disconnect, and Mother Nature is a valid scapegoat.

But unraveling the impact of weather is not always easy. Macroeconomic Advisers initially predicted that as many as 58,000 jobs may not have materialized in March because they were already taken in February. But then it hedged the bet as March turned out unseasonably warm as well.

On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the job market slowed in March as employers expanded payrolls by 120,000 jobs, falling short of expectations.

Varvares said the labor market boost from the mild winter will eventually even itself out. Though that may mean dips in job growth in coming months, the fact that workers found jobs earlier in the year — and pocketed a few more paychecks — could wind up being a net benefit to the economy What Is The Best Tattoo Machine, he said.

And despite the hand-wringing over the weather, economists seem to agree that the fundamentals of the recovery are solid. Baur believes that the second half of the year will pick up steam as state and local governments enjoy rebounds in tax revenue and layoffs slow down.

“We’re confident that the U.S. economy today is in a sustainable expansion,” he said. “These things that we’ve been talking about are mostly for data nerds like me and other economists.”

LONDON/MADRID, Apr. 26, 2012 (Reuters) — Quarterly reports from some of Europe’s top banks showed the scars of the euro zone crisis on Thursday, with big losses on Spanish property, and fragile markets casting a shadow over the rest of the year despite an early investment banking rebound.

Spanish bank Santander said first quarter net profit dropped 24 percent after it took a 3.1 billion euro ($4.1 billion) provision to cover rising loan defaults, as the effects of Spain’s property market crash were compounded by economic recession and joblessness afflicting nearly one in four workers.

Although results from Barclays and Deutsche Bank showed investment banking income bounced back strongly after a torrid end to last year, the sickly euro zone economy continues to dog the industry.

Barclays beat analysts’ forecasts with a 22 percent rise in underlying first-quarter profit to 2.45 billion pounds, as revenues at Barclays Capital, the investment bank that provides the bulk of its profit, rose to 3.5 billion pounds, up 91 percent on a weak fourth quarter and up 3 percent from a year ago.

Losses on bad debts dipped 16 percent from a year ago, but the bank warned the backdrop remained difficult.

“The environment remains challenging and volatile,” Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond said. “It’s still slow economic growth around the world. It’s still a zero interest rate policy in developed economies. This is not a robust environment.”

He echoed comments from other banks that market activity had slowed in April. “Most people would say April was a bit sluggish compared to the first three months,” he said.

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Revenues from Deutsche Bank’s corporate banking and securities division hit 6.2 billion euros, up over 80 percent from the fourth quarter, but down 8 percent from a year ago.

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The first quarter is typically the strongest for investment banks and can set the tone for the year, but this year the rebound was exaggerated by massive liquidity support from the European Central Bank, and analysts said signs that impact had faded could be a concern.

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Barclays took a 300 million pound extra charge to cover the cost of compensating customers for mis-selling insurance policies. It said it had to add to a 1 billion pound provision last year due to a spike in claims from customers in the last two months.

(Reporting by Steve Slater and Matt Scuffham in London, Sonya Dowsett in Madrid and Edward Taylor in Frankfurt; Editing by Will Waterman)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Taxpayers could realize a profit of more than $15.1 billion from the massive government bailout of insurer American International Group, a congressional watchdog said.

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The U.S. Treasury acquired shares in AIG as part of a $182 billion bailout of the insurer in 2008, the largest rescue of a single corporation, and has reduced the investment over time.

Treasury sold AIG common stock in May 2011 and this March. Another sale on Monday – that realized $5.8 billion – reduced taxpayer equity interest in AIG to 61 percent.

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Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, was on Washingtonpost.com Tuesday to chat with readers about their romantic, family, financial, and workplace problems. She will return to her regular chat schedule next week: Mondays at 1 p.m. (Read Prudie’s Slate columns here.) An unedited transcript of this week’s chat follows.

Emily Yoffe: Good afternoon. I look forward to your questions.

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Bowie, Md.: Dear Prudie, I have a great boyfriend of 2 years, and there are no major problems between us, except that he rarely brushes his teeth. When I can see the plaque on his teeth, I usually end up pulling away when he kisses me. The other thing about it is that if I can see the plaque others can, too. How can I gently tell him to pick up a tooth brush?

Emily Yoffe: For two years you have been watching the Great Wall of Plaque build on your boyfriend’s teeth and you can’t think of a way to tell Mr. Gingivitis he’s repulsing you? I’d say that’s a major problem. Forget gentle hints. Tell him it’s not a moral issue that keeps you from kissing him, but an oral one. Say he needs to visit a dentist immediately and start regularly brushing and flossing or else your commitment to him is going to be as loose as his teeth.

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Emily Yoffe: What you don’t do is tell her that her struggle with mortality has prompted you to have another child. You’re right, since you are best friends and this is something you would have told her if she hadn’t become ill, you do have to let her know. Surely, not all your conversations revolve around her illness, and when you’re talking about normal things, you should simply tell her, “I have some exciting news—I’m pregnant.” Be sensitive to her response. Sure, she might burst into tears and say she fears this will never happen for her. To which you say that you long for the day when she has a child of her own Christian Audigier Clothes sale, you are so sorry that she has to endure this ordeal, and you admire the way she is facing it. Be understanding—not defensive—about her pain. And don’t get backed into a corner having to explain why you chose this time. What you said here is right—life rarely offers perfect opportunities.

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I’ve managed to avoid the circus for the past several years by living abroad, but now I’m back and getting ready to start grad school in September. Between now and then, I’ve been invited to 4 weddings, 4 showers and umpteen stag and does, which are not limited to guests. All of the couples already live together and have much nicer homes and incomes than I do.

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Emily Yoffe: I often wonder where the idea that your friends are supposed to defray the costs of your life events got started. I guess we should be grateful that it’s mostly confined to weddings and we all don’t get regular grocery bills or requests to help with the annual vacation from our married friends. The way to stop being part of this is to do what you’re doing: just give something appropriate that you can afford. You don’t have to have an original response as to why you aren’t doing more. Just keep repeating, “Unfortunately, I can’t make that event.”

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Washington, D.C.: Dear Prudence, I have been dating my boyfriend for a little over a year now, and he is absolutely fantastic. Very attractive, very loving, very kind—the list goes on and on. The issue (and of course there is one), is that he is a bit older than me—I’m 28 and he’s 45. Most of the time the age difference doesn’t bother me, since we get along so well. However, when I think about the long-term, I worry about the issues that may arise, such as him dying well before me. Am I crazy to be dwelling on issues that are so far down the road (he is in excellent health), or should I seriously consider that our age difference may be too great a barrier to overcome?

Emily Yoffe: What’s crazy is for people who are considering spending their lives together to not address the issues that are bound to come up, such as whether to have children, religious differences, etc. Sure, this age difference may not seem so dramatic now, but 17 years is a big gap and you have to think through the implications. That said Cheap Chloe Dresses, there is no guarantee that even a person closer to your age will live a long, healthy life. And many couples with big age differences have long, successful marriages. If you do want to spend your lives together, your age difference, and what it will mean to your work lives, reproductive lives, etc. is something you should feel open about talking about.

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Emily Yoffe: Your husband’s guilt and indulgence, as it tends to, has crippled its recipient. There is obviously something wrong with your stepson—despite a difficult childhood he lacks even the most basic human drives for independence and self-respect. Your family needs professional intervention. Your stepson needs a full medical and psychological work up to get to the bottom of why he’s missed the basic milestones (friends, work) of becoming an adult. And you two need someone to help you figure out how to start giving your stepson the tools to fledge.

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