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GE healthcare has formed a biotech partnership to develop products based on human embryonic stem cells in hope that their use will replace lab rats in drug development and topix drug tests.

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India, France to firm up fight against terrorism

On a hot, golden summer’s day, with over 5,000 guests crowding the lawns and the gilded salons of the Elysee Palace, French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute to India saying he was happy and privileged to welcome Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh. He described India as “one billion people and a friend of France” and said Dr. Singh had been recently “re-elected by over 700 million people to head the largest democracy in the world.”

India was the guest of honour at the Bastille Day parade in France. Mr. Sarkozy made his remarks while introduction Dr. Singh to his guests after a working lunch. This year marks the 220th anniversary of the French Revolution.

Terrorism and how best to fight it, the situation in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, West Asia and the Gulf were some of the issues that received particular attention during the discussions over lunch. Furthering cooperation in the defence and nuclear sectors also featured high on the agenda. France hopes to sell Rafale fighter planes to India and Areva is close to finalizing agreements with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.

Relations between India and France have developed rapidly in recent years and an annual leadership summit has now become the norm. There is a strong convergence of interest on threats posted by terrorism and measures to counter it and the two leaders agreed to further strengthen cooperation in the area.

“In inviting the Indian Prime Minister to be the Guest of Honour at the Bastille Day Parade, Paris certainly wished to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries. It also wants to improve its position as India’s third largest supplier of defence equipment,” commented the right wing paper le Figaro.

Before the glittering, select crowd in attendance at the French President’s traditional garden party, Dr. Singh made a cal for further strengthening the strategic partnership that had developed between the two countries since 1998. He said it was “a rare privilege and a great honour for India’s armed forces to be invited to take part in the grand spectacle that is the 14th of July parade.”

Recalling the 1789 French Revolution that Bastille Day or the French National Day seeks to commemorate, Dr.Singh said: “Two hundred and twenty years ago, this great city saw the emergence of a powerful voice, the universal recognition of the ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. These ideals have changed the course of history. Our own freedom struggle took inspiration from the French Revolution and guided the fathers of our Constitution.”

Dr. Singh said on a more personal note that Mr. Sarkozy had been of “enormous support” to him “during the two and a half years he has been in office. I would like to see the strategic partnership between India and France strengthen day by day and every day so that we may work for human rights, human dignity throughout the world,” Dr. Singh said. His words in English were charmingly, if not always accurately, translated into French by Carla Bruni, Mr. Sarkozy’s elegant wife. However, this was not the only mistake the Elysee made. Ms. Singh’s name was repeatedly spelt erroneously as Gurushara Khaur.

But the atmosphere of goodwill and bonhomie was evident. During their lunch, Mr. Sarkozy said India was a major force in the 21st century which would fully realize its great power potential.

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Facts about humans

o Ancient Egyptians often named their children as “how drunk is chops” or “how intoxicated is hath”.
o Your thing bone is stronger than concrete.
o Nose helps to filter the dirt and dust in the air.
o Nails grow faster in summer than in winter.
o The hair of men grows faster than women.
o Fingers have no muscles.
o Dark hair grows faster than light-colored hair.
o Eyelashes keep dust out of the eyes.
o Each eye weighs 1 ¼ ounces.
o The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.
o A new born baby’s brains weigh three ounces.
o Women blink twice as many times as men do.
o Approximately, there are 550 hairs in the eye brow.
o A baby is born every seven seconds.
o The jawbone is the hardest bone in the human body.
o According to German researches, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday between 9 to 10 am.
o France is most distrustful in the world.
o The brains look pink because of the blood flowing through it.
o Bone marrow is the only part that grows.
o You use 20 different facial muscles when you kiss.
o Abraham Lincoln and Paul revere were distant relatives.
o The smell of peppermints can improve the concentration in humans.
o Many residents of troublesome creek, Kentucky, have blue skin.
o Smelling green apples and Bananas can help you to lose weight.
o Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.
o Your heart beats over 100,000 times per day.
o Blinking helps to wash tears over your eyeballs.
o When a woman is pregnant, her senses are all heightened.
o Men sweat more than women.
o Women heart beats faster than men.
o Blood was used by Native Americans for painting early.
o More than 50 percent of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
o The hair of an adult man or woman can strengthen 25 percent of its length without breaking.

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