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09/21/2006
Atul Gawande, 40, a surgeon and author at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston is the recipient of a $500,000 "genius" award from the John D & Catherine T MacArthur Foundation.
The award has been given this year to 22 other accomplished men and women.Gawande, also a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and author of the "Notes of a Surgeon" column for the New England Journal of Medicine, examines ways to prevent human error in surgery. One of his innovations is a bar code on instruments and sponges to prevent surgeons from accidentally leaving them in patients.
Another South Asian Shahzia Sikander, is a painter merging the traditional South Asian art of miniature painting with contemporary forms and styles to create visually compelling, resonant works on multiple scales and in a dazzling array of media.It is indeed a wonderful honor.
To share some interesting facts with our readers. We found them in the Discover India magazine June issue.
34 percent of MICROSOFT employees are Indians
28 percent of IBM employees are Indians
17 percent of INTEL employees are Indians
38 percent of Doctors in America are Indians
12 percent of Scientists in America are Indians
36 percent of NASA employees are Indians
Diwali is an important Hindu festival, and USPS (US Postal Service) is
considering issuing stamps for this occasion.
USPS has stamps for other festivals too like Christmas, Hanukkah,
Kwanzaa,Eid, and Chinese New Year. To do this, USPS needs 500,000 signatures to havea stamp release,and so far we have 315900!!!!+ people who have signed thepetition. Please go to the site below and support the release of the Diwalistamp.
Also, please forward widely to others who would support this.
So lets get the Diwali stamp issued.
http://www.petitiononline.com/diwali03
Wishing our readers a happy navarathri. !
The Lokvani Team
Nirmala Garimella, Anoop Kumar , Anil Saigal and Ranjani Saigal
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