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 Nation The UN team is in town, but are we expecting too much from it?  SUMAN PRADHAN 
 Every new budget reinvents the wheel with rehashed recycled programs  BINIT SHARMA 
 Even if the right decisions are taken today, we'll still have eight hours of winter power cuts daily till at least 2013  KUNDA DIXIT 
 Local programs cut malnutrition at a faster rate than national ones NARESH NEWAR in NAWALPARASI 
 Nature Instead of telling tourists not to visit Nepal in the monsoon, we should be marketing it BILLI BIERLING in MANANG 
 
 Star Gazing Meteors, or shooting stars, light up the August sky KEDAR SHARMA BADU 
 Nepali Society 
 Review The characters in Samrat Upadhyay's new book are a metaphor for the state of the country  
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