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For a novel and very green alternative to pesticides, the owners of a housing complex in Manhattan have come up with an ingenious solution: ladybirds. Instead of using chemicals, the owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village bought 720,000 ladybirds to deal with pests on their 32 hectares of garden and grass. On ladybird can consume 50 pests a day, keeping about 50cm^2 clear. From all reports, local residents have welcomed the new spotted neighbors, who are doing a good job of keeping their suburban ecosystem in check.

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Struggling to solve Discovered but currently not index issue

It's been two - three day since me and my friend started our blog journey. Before that we have tried various ways to earn money like recording a book, creating a YouTube videos etc. But not all of them are success in terms of revenue earned. I woke up early in the morning, and after that I stated my daily routine like brushing, bathing and taking breakfast. After that I remembered my blogging journey so immediately I stated (Turned On) my personal computer. Actually Last night I wasn't sleep well because of constantly remembering my blogging journey, about How will I actually do it, How will I implement any idea, How will I utilize different concept etc... So remembering that while my PC was turning on slow as usual! after My PC turned on first thing I did was checking emails on my primary email address on Gmail.com . I regularly check my email address in a hope that I might find any job opportunity in Linkedin.com . But you know not a single email about it! However...

How I learned that changing the world isn't such a big deal from small things

I'm sure many great, powerful and rich people think about how they can make a difference world. There are so many big problems, and they require big solutions, right? Actually, sometimes little things can make a really big difference. I learnt this lesson one day nine years ago with my father, when I was just acting like myself-a nine-year-old kid. Papa came home late from work after 9pm. He's a businessman who works long hours, and on this day he looked even more tired and stressed than usual. His eyes were already half-closed from weariness. I, on the other hand, was completely hyper. I followed him to his bedroom, skipping and doing the "Walrus Dance," which I had made up myself. This ridiculous routine involved twisting my arms and legs in opposite directions. Papa trudged up the stairs, slowly lifting his large feet one after the other. He seemed to fall deeper and deeper into exhaustion every step he took. I was afraid that I would have to start pushing him, ...

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A policeman had come home in my absence to verify my passport application, but did not leave a note. I just went to the Passport Office, and it was disgusting. Sorry, but I've decided that giving Rs.500 to the sub-inspector is something I'm actually going to do. - Usha Verma Kejriwal's Crusade As a race, we have been known to give in to temptation [Arvind Kejriwal's Quest for Change, May]. Companies pay huge kickbacks for contracts while the common man pays a tenner to the peon to meet an officer. Unable to shake ourselves from the web of corruption, we find our selves deeper in it. Yet there is hope as long as people like Kejriwal can dream of a corruption-free India. - Dr Ashwani K. Malhotra, Ludhiana The problem is that only a few of us want an end to corruption. Why politicians do not want to check the malady needs no explanation. Bureaucrats like to serve under corrupt bosses because they too can male a quick buck. Businessmen prefer to grease a palm instead of sta...

Nothing like an autobiography

Nobody, the movie moghul Samuel Goldwyn is supposed to have said, should write their autobiography until after they are dead. Indians seem to fell the same way, for very few of them have written accounts of their lives. Indeed until very recent times, only a handful even kept diaries: the only Indian I've heard of who kept one before the 19th century was Ananda Ranga Pillai, an 18th century merchant who became the chief agent for the French in Pondicherry. Things have changed. Many Indians have written about their lives including two if greatest Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. And although the four memoirs that I write about here are not as well as known as The Story of My Experiments with Truth and An Autobiography , they're all of the first rank. The first, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN UKNOWN INDIAN , is the story of one our most original, irascible and provocative intellectuals, Nirad Chaudhuri. Published in 1951 when Chaudhuri was 54, it was his first book and, in the opin...

Red hot

We now have the scientific proof - blokes in scarlet hues are sexier. Men who choose to were the color of love,, passion and danger ooze sexual attraction, according to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology . Women participants were asked to respond to photographs of men decked out in different colors. The results? Men wearing red were deemed sexy, powerful, and dominating all of which point to a man's high status. "I's this high status judgment that leads to the attraction," said lead author Andrew Elliot. Some Known Facts: Australian producers exported 16 million liters of sparkling wine in 2010. There are 16 German states of Länder. The current head of the Catholic Church is 16th pope to choose the name Benedict. Each player in a chess game starts with 16 pieces. Model and TV host Heidi Klum made an estimated $US16 million in 2009-2010, according to Forbes.com Australia won 16 gold medals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. During the 1990s, about...

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