1. Nothing unusual in this, surely ?
2. Clickmango’s weekly sales had reached the glorious heights of $3000, a small fraction of the $35,000 it was spending every week to stay in business.
3. Recent events have not been encouraging for Europe’s crop of once optimistic Internet start-ups.
4. This week Clickmango, an online health-care business, became the latest of a string of such dot.com casualties.
5. They include such spectacular collapses as that of boo.com, a spendthrift electronic sports-goods retailer that met impressive standards of corporate extravagance while blithely losing a bundle.

1. Is the Kyoto Protocol dead?
2. A delegation from the European Union was rebuffed in Washington when they tried to get the United States to reconsider its decision to turn its back on the treaty.
3. The visit followed two recent bombshells dropped by George Bush.
4. Last month, he abruptly announced a U-turn on his intention to control the emission of carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas, through domestic regulations.
5. And last week, he made it clear that his opposition to the Kyoto deal was not just posturing but “unequivocal”

1. If Henry Ford were to drive around Motown today in his Tin Lizzy, he’d be appalled by what’s happening to cars. Customers not only care about the colour of their car, but want cars that boast of as much electronics on boards as a space shuttle.
2. In fact, a bunch of researchers in California has made hands-free driving already a reality.
3. It will do the driving for you.
4. Touch-sensitive gears, multiple sensors, and GPS are some things that most hi-end cars already boast of.
5. And not too far in the future, you might be driving a car…actually, you wouldn’t be driving at all.

1. The transformation of China has been so complete that Indian companies are starting to view China as a market, not just a formidable competitor.
2. China is the world’s most successful case of economic development in recorded history.
3. It has set itself apart by the size and growth of its economy, its superior infrastructure, and its seeming insulation from the threats of terrorism and sectarian violence.
4. Not very long ago, international consultants used to point to similarities between India and China. Then, China and India were roughly comparable in terms of their stages of development, size, infrastructure and security environment.
5. Today, however, the two countries belong in very different categories.

1. It is amply clear that scientific developments are taking place on their own, without any effective check.

1. Nobody considers whether it would not be unethical to manipulate an animal's breeding cycle for purely economical reasons.
2. At this point, it is necessary to ponder in which direction we are proceeding.
3. No values or ground rules are formulated for any process or device to use it properly for the benefit of humanity.
4. There is no effective interface between science and society.