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Politics Business Expressions General Sports Leisure States 26 February 1998   Chill out: It's an EC break All you party animals will have to swing to the tune of psephologists this week. Well, that's the only option you have with the Election Commission declaring a ``dry'' spell of six days starting today and pubs across the city reacting by simply downing their shutters.   Tiger's roar is no big deal for Kalmadi It's not only the absence of the lotus symbol on the ballot paper that the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena alliance cadres are missing in Pune, but also the Sena tiger's roar and much more. Mrs MP rolls up her sleeves for poll battle While Leela Vithal Tupe confesses with a laugh that living in the same house, she has not seen her husband for the past 15 days, Meera Kalmadi has to make an effort to remember if Suresh had his routine breakfast of dosas this morning. Web of panic turns out a hoax-mail! Panic is the latest message to sweep the Internet of late. Websters the world over have received warnings relayed to them by concerned friends and kin, of a malicious virus disguised as electronic mail that wipes out the recipient's hard disk.   FICCI to lobby for Bollywood The Hindi film industry got a shot in the arm with Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce (FICCI) chairperson K K Modi offering to lobby for the industry before the heads of government. World Vignettes Scientifically speaking, bad luck day Friday the 13th is a day like any other, says Chemnitz mathematician Eberhard Lanckau. He says part of his work is to help refute an age-old superstition.     Death of a killer   Why do dogs always put out their tongues and pant?