When Juliet Jacobs found out she had lung cancer, she was terrified, but realised that her hope lay in getting the best treatment medicine could offer. So she got a second opinion, then a third. In February of 2010, she ended up at Duke University, where she entered a research study whose promise seemed stunning.

Dodgy science

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Wine is known to have been produced 8,000 years ago in modern-day Georgia. The first wines were probably much older, perhaps going back to the start of agriculture (around 8,000 BCE, which is also when the first beers were brewed). Wine was common in ancient Greece (8th - 4th Century BCE), and classical Rome (up to 500 AD) propagated viticulture and winemaking all over Europe along with their empire.

Brief history of wine

Fabiano Caruana won the AAI despite a late hiccup, when he lost to Viktor Laznicka. The 1992-born Italian-American GM scored 7 points from 10 rounds, and amply deserved the $8000 he received. He is now the highest-rated player under 20, with 2725, on the live list.

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His first film sank without a trace, but Abhinay Deo has hit the jackpot with Delhi Belly. He will choose scripts carefully from now on.

The man called acting

The Immortals of Meluha, last year&rsquo;s runaway bestseller, could soon become a film.

Karma cola and masala mythology

Reclining as he is, Lord Padmanabha in eternal sleep and gilded in gold, has woken up the entire nation. All without stirring.

The lord's treasures

Japanese food has stepped out of five-stars and into mid-priced standalone restaurants.

Teriyaki flavours

As the Pawan Hans helicopter from Guwahati descends on Tawang, you feel like the Monpa gods emerging out of the clouds. The hour-long flight takes you over Bhutan for a good half hour, just 30 km outside Chinese airspace. At Tawang, local women wearing the traditional chuba carry their babies strapped to their backs. Young children wear bright woolly scarves, their red chapped cheeks lit by bashful smiles. Men of the Apatani tribes walk by wearing vests of raw hide; their 5-pronged caps, made of yak hair, make them look like displaced Rastafarians.

Road to Bomdila

The art market is slowly bouncing back and gaining strength, and with it the punters are returning. Despite the somnolent summer recess in India (the action during that period having shifted to the West), the last few months have seen some of the euphoria of 2005-08 being revived, with entrepreneurs sniffing an opportunity and eyeing art as the big-ticket prospect for their futures. While existing players continue to be cautious in terms of growth, a mid-year review shows some big gains in art prices at the auctions; tie-ups with international galleries for exhibitions in some of the world&rsquo;s leading art capitals (prepare for announcements over the next few months); at least one more auction house being added in Mumbai; K-MOMA on schedule for Kolkata; and existing galleries consolidating their hold on their collector bases with branches across the suburbs or in other cities on the cards.

The tide turns

In the crowded railway compartment on my way to Midnapur, the daily scenes on Calcutta&rsquo;s pavements kept on coming back to my mind &mdash; the procession of famished, helpless living skeletons that once formed Bengal&rsquo;s village society &mdash; fishermen, boatmen, potters, wea-vers, peasants, whole families of them; the five corpses that I counted one morning in the short stretch of road between Amherst Street and Sealdah station; and all the other gruesome sights which had become a part of everyday life in the city. It also came to my mind that of all this throng of the dead and the dying eighty per cent probably were from Midnapur.

'The gods were deserting their poor votaries'

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was the chief minister under whom the Left lost West Bengal after 34 long years.

The fall guy 

A serial entrepreneur&rsquo;s vision to drive PC adoption in India promises to bring computing power to every household through the innovative use of cloud computing. Novatium, a computing services company founded by Rajesh Jain in 2004, offers a thin client-based computing solution, which is delivered as a utility service to households and requires very low energy to function. The company has filed 10 patents in the areas of utility-based computing services.

Computing power to every home

Are you the boss you need to be? When they are receptive to change managers usually take on new positions and assignments. The ambitious ones stretch themselves to understand the challenges and deliver good results. But as they settle in, they often become complacent &mdash; perhaps because they lose the fear of imminent failure. Linda A Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (HBS), says many of them stop making progress because they simply don&rsquo;t know how to. Hill, who is also the faculty chair of the leadership initiative at HBS, co-authored Being the Boss early this year in which she offers an approach for managers to understand the transformational challenges of their roles and what it takes to become an effective leader. She discusses the approach, which she calls &ldquo;the three imperatives&rdquo;, in a free-wheeling conversation with Amit Ranjan Rai.

Q&A: Linda A Hill, Professor of Business Administration, HBS

Acouple of months back, confectionery maker Cadbury India entered the Rs 12,000 crore biscuit market with the launch of Oreo sandwich cookies from the global portfolio of its parent Kraft Foods. Oreo is the second product after orange drink Tang from the Kraft stable available in India.

Cadbury India: Bonding over biscuits

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter continue to lead, but Google&rsquo;s bid to reverse its curse has got everyone interested.

Users give Google+ the big thumbs up

Have you ever lied to your boss to avoid going to work? Or lied to your wife to attend a late-night office party? Lie no more, says Intex mobile&rsquo;s latest television commercial for its handset IN 4470 N. It is the first handset in the country to offer the facility of video chatting on a 2G platform, a feature that was thus far associated with 3G phones. To highlight the unique offering, the company&rsquo;s new campaign tells the viewers &ldquo;Ab jo bolna hai muh pe bol.

Intex Technologies: In your face

It&rsquo;s been just nine months since the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) gave its nod to mobile trading. But the trend has caught up with trades through uniform resource locator (URL)- and wireless application protocol-based systems.

Mobile trading gathers steam

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Environment studies is a nascent field in India. But with growing awareness about the environment, more students are likely to take interest in the field.

KIT: Environment education in India

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The Strategist Quiz (#209)

    Every week analysts of this firm offer stock tips at a gathering called &ldquo;The trading huddle&rdquo;. Some traders who make bets with the firm&rsquo;s own money also attend it. Name the firm.

Answers to last week's quiz (#208)

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