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It's a long way to cyberworld
WE have heard about computers and seen them sometimes on TV. But we have not seen a computer live.'' That was the answer of 540 boys and girls at the New English School, Dharmapuri village, Malshiras Taluka, Solapur district when we asked them whether th ey had ever felt or touched a computer. All of them raised their hands to emphasise the point.

For the villages
AT around eight on a Monday morning, Pradeep Lokhande came up to our hotel room with a warm welcome. In a black T-shirt, blue jeans, leather shoes and well-groomed neat air, one could not associate the short and lightly built Pradeep Lokhande with villag e work. It only got worse when he drove us to his office in mid-town Pune in his chocolate coloured Honda Accord to give us a brief resume of Rural Relations.

Vultures no more
SOME two months ago Dr Mallikarjun S. Gaudar of Poultry Diagnostic Research Centre of Venkateswara Hatcheries in Pune made a trip to Bayana near Bharatpur to study the population density of the white-backed and long-billed vultures. He spotted a colony o f some 50 or 60 vultures down from a few thousands a couple of years ago.

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