Jonah Lomu was soon one of the featured individual names heading up the adidas Web site: designers and developers take my input and feedback seriously when developing rugby footwear, he tells the cyberpunters.

There was no wiggle room here, no leeway, no margin for error.

Panikkar’s study was primarily aimed at providing a survey of Western imperialism in Asia from CE 1498 to 1945. Christian missions came into the picture simply because he found them arrayed always and everywhere alongside Western gunboats, diplomatic pressures, extraterritorial rights and plain gangsterism.

This low temperature requirement for flowering, called vernalization, begins at germination. Vernalization is assumed to occur at temperatures between 0 and 18°C (Ahrens and Loomis, 1963; Tirone and Metzer, 1970).