Automobiles
Multi-point riddle
Acronyms can be fun. BBB, for instance. That expands into bull baffles brains. And pretty much explains what auto manufacturers are trying to do with MPFI. Which, incidentally, expands into multi-point fuel injection.
Consumer Notes
`High' on drugs
According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) survey and a survey conducted by the Consumer International, more than 50 per cent of medical prescriptions are irrational. Often, prescriptions are given over the telephone. However, a good and responsible
physician is expected to know the patient's condition well before prescribing any medicine.
Food & Dairy Products
Don't chicken out
All right, people, I have a confession to make. I am not really qualified to write this column. I am no cordon-bleu expert. I have never toiled in five-star kitchens. I am not a gourmet. I do not even own a spotless white apron, forget the imposing headg
ear (it would be blasphemy to call that tall, white creation a hat) that chefs sport.
Health
Beat that angry buzz
It's here. An electronic mechanism that helps you track your inner information highway, break down barriers and walk a borderless new frontier of freedom. It's called the biofeedback machine, the galvanic skin response (GSR) instrument, a digital do-it-y
ourself `disco' with its click, buzzes and flashes. On your doctor's advice, you rent it for Rs. 600 per session, sit in an air-conditioned, sound-proof medical studio with electrodes taped to your various body parts that are attached to a machine, watch
and listen fascinated at the happenings in your body being reproduced as buzzes and blinking lights on the monitor and then, control them -- meaning: you extinguish them, which signals your new-found calmness.
Information Technology
Names for all reasons
It's the California gold rush all over again. Fuelled by get-rich-quick success stories, prospectors are panning the Internet for domain names that will make their fortunes.
Who's in charge?
So many domains registered every day, with different registrars, in different countries... who's keeping track, you wonder?
Miscellaneous
What gives?
What would you do if you saw someone stripping on a busy street? Would you be amused? Would your middle-class sensibilities be shocked enough for you to lodge a complaint? Would you think this made for great television?
Video resumes
Watch out! Your face could now be your fortune. It has become possible for prospective employers to call job seekers for an interview only if they like their looks. More seriously, the first Indian video resume service was launched last week at a career
fair in New Delhi.
Official-ease at Clips
Madhu Jain's shop, Clips, which is India's largest stationery store, has found itself a place in the Limca Book of World Records.
Travel & Places
All's `fair' at Camden
A short stopover in London was enough to give Sudha Menon a memmorable time... away from the regular tourist circuit at the colourful weekend market at Camden Lock.
History's tryst with Mathura
A little - known museum in Mathura is a repository of valuable ancient artefacts. The devoted caretakers add to the joy of discovery, says Shona Adhikari.
