The young fellow who came to us in the morning to ask if we would like a tour of the city was tall and blond, and smartly dressed in a well cut suit, whose jacket had however...
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Scientists are just people, with all the variety and idiosyncrasy that you would find in any other group of people. The “mad professor” image that the silly...
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Seeing Bangladesh from the air, you could be forgiven for believing the country was awash. Neither the Bay of Bengal, nor the many branches of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra...
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He was short and hard and wiry, his inquisitive brown eyes wide set and wondering above a broad nose and a mouth whose ready smile lost nothing from the absence of teeth between...
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The Brahmaputra, where it flows through Bangladesh is more like a lake than a river. Well over a mile wide, its muddy waters stretch like an ocean of warm milky tea as far as...
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