Here was the former NUM President immortalising himself as a working class hero through his description of the day he urged 15, 000 of Birmingham's engineering workers to join the striking miners.

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The dean of the physics department, SV Subramaniam, describes Tulsi as a "good boy, very lovable and working to achieve his goals", but declines to comment on the description of Tulsi as a prodigy.

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Most countries require inventors to provide a working model, he said, while the U.S. merely requires a description.

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