The country s infrastructure remains woeful, as any visitor flying into an Indian airport notices.

ROME Sometimes something happens that can have a fundamental impact on mankind, but passes largely unnoticed at the time.

When he was writing the plays and the short stories that would make his name, Anton Chekhov kept a notebook in which he noted down his observations of the world around him little details that other people seem to miss.

And his undeniable success in implementing his labor laws, exemplified by sparse street demonstrations, has been undermined by his irrepressible will to provocation, reflected in his gratuitous remark that today when there is a strike in France, no one notices it!

The large, mostly spontaneous gatherings at Truman's whistle stop events were an important sign of a change in momentum in the campaign, but this shift went virtually unnoticed by the national press corps, which continued reporting Republican Thomas Dewey's apparent impending victory as a certainty.

And, of course, the persistent complaints of corruption and bureaucratic red tape have not faded with liberalization. The country s infrastructure remains woeful, as any visitor flying into an Indian airport notices.

And they face limitations, constraints, they may be weak, they may be located in the wrong part of the world, they may be Einstein, stuck away farming someplace in a rural village in India not being noticed, as was the case for Ramanujan for a long time, a great mathematician but nobody noticed.