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Beckett's publisher is waiting for aid
At age 75, Barney Rosset, who in the '50s and '60s successfully fought to get Lady Chatterley and other controversial literature past US censors, now faces financial ruin. His publishing house has gone bust. He receives no royalties. He hasn't paid the rent on the downtown loft where he lives and works.
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Selling space: Businessmen hope for El Dorado in asteroids
Space technology and hard business sense could soon ring in a gold rush in space, in which futuristic spacecraft swarm out to the 400 asteroids that are to be found in the vicinity of the earth's orbit of the sun. The possibility of finding valuable mineral deposits is not the only factor seeming to promise a fortune to adventurous businessmen willing to brave unknown risks as they look to outer space in the next millennium.
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IFFI: The good, the weird & the unusual
The film mela at Siri Fort venue hasn't thrown up anything quite like the Tokyo surprise, it had its share of the good, the weird and the unusual. Call it whacky or plain pretentious, film festivals do dish out these crazy ideas that irrespective of their effectiveness add to the overall experience.
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Sun will swallow the earth: Narlikar
The sun, an essential source for sustenance of life on earth, will become two hundred times bigger than its present shape and will swallow planets like earth, Venus and Mars. However, such a thing is likely to happen in distant future, about six billion years from now.
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