PAY ATTENTION

First-year students in an American Medical School were receiving a lecture from an Indian Professor

This was their first anatomy class with a real dead human body. They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet.The professor started the class by telling them, "In medicine, it is necessary to have 2 important qualities as a doctor :

The first is that you are not disgusted by anything involving the human body." For an example, the professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of the corpse, withdrew it and stuck it in his mouth."Go ahead and do the same thing," he told his students. The students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took turns sticking a finger in the butt of the dead body and sucking on it.

When everyone finished, the Professor looked at them calmly and told them, "The second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my middle finger and sucked on my index finger. Now learn to pay attention....."

India will attend next week’s Annapolis Conference, probably the last attempt by United States President George Bush to revive the Israel-Palestinian peace process.

India is yet to send a formal acceptance, but Chinmaya R Gharekhan, India’s special envoy for West Asia, is all set to attend the conference. “India received an invitation and will take part in the conference," Gharekhan confirmed, saying it was appropriate that Delhi had been invited — with its close links with West Asia, India was “well-placed" to help in finding a peaceful solution.

The US-sponsored conference is meant to nudge Israel and Palestinian Authority towards a twonation solution — the establishment of an independent Palestine.

While the main conference — at a naval base in Annapolis, near Washington DC — is on November 27, the deliberations will begin a day earlier in the US capital. The three-day meet includes separate meetings of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with Bush.

Analysts see the conference as the last shot that George Bush has of a foreign policy success before he relinquishes office, most likely leaving the Iraq mess for his successor to clear up.

Officially, the US says the conference is meant to support the ‘courageous’ efforts of Olmert and Abbas in realising “President Bush’s vision of two democratic states”.

At a seminar organised by a Delhi think-tank, Observer Research Foundation, Gharekhan said he expected the event to lead to a “serious negotiating process”.

sachin-bio

Full Name:	Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Date of Birth:	April 24, 1973
Place of Birth:	Mumbai
Major Teams:	India, Mumbai
Batting Style:	Right -Hand Batsman
Bowling Style:	Right Arm Medium, Leg Break, Right Arm Off Break
ODI Debut :	India v Pakistan at Gujranwala, 2nd ODI, 1989/90
Test Debut :	India v Pakistan at Karachi, 1st Test, 1989/90
Height :	5'5
The first batsman to score 10,000 runs in one-day cricket, making the record in the third game of a five-match series against Australia on the 31st of March 2001. He reached the landmark when he scored 34 runs in his 266th match and 259th innings. Tendulkar, 27, in his amazing 12-year career, has scored a world record 28 hundreds and 50 half-centuries in his 10,000 runs. A genius without a doubt, this little master made his International debut in ODI’s and Tests at the age of 16 against Pakistan against the fiery pace of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. He then went to England as a part of the national side, and has not looked back ever since. The name itself strikes terror in the hearts of bowlers all around the world. Hailed as the next master-blaster following the legacy of the great West Indian Vivian Richards, this man has every shot in the book, and can kill any attack in the world when in full swing. There is nothing this man cannot do.