misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 16 2008 | India, news, business
Quoted: Yet Mr. Gandhi was a scrawny ascetic, a champion of the village, a skeptic of modernity and a man focused on spiritual purity. Mr. Ambani is a fleshy oligarch, a champion of the city, a burier of the past and a man who deftly — and, some critics say, ruthlessly — wields financial power. He is the richest person in India, with a fortune estimated in the tens of billions of dollars, and many people here expect that he will be the richest person on earth before long.
misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 01 2008 | news, india, pregnancy, baby, commerce, outsourcing, medicineQuoted: Every night in this quiet western Indian city, 15 pregnant women prepare for sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs in a procession of ballooned bellies, to bedrooms that become a landscape of soft hills...The young mothers of Anand, a place famous for its milk, are pregnant with the children of infertile couples from around the world.
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misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 30 2007 | chess, news, India, Sports
Quoted: Anand, the world’s top-ranked player, won the World Chess Championship in Mexico City that ended yesterday. He dominated the 14-round event, winning four of them and losing none through Round 13.
The article includes moves from his game against Aronian where he plays black and wins.
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misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 06 2007 | Migrant Labor, labor, news, Persian Gulf, South Asia, India, Kerala
Quoted: They still wake before dawn in desert dormitories that pack a dozen men or more to a room. They still pour concrete and tie steel rods in temperatures that top 110 degrees. They still spend years away from families in India and Pakistan to earn about $1 an hour. They remain bonded to employers under terms that critics liken to indentured servitude.
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misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - May 05 2007 | india, news
Quoted: Kunal Sah hopes that winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee will help bring his parents back from India.
And that's just the beginning of the story ;-)
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misaacs | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 31 2007 | competition, news, Television, india, seattle, media
Quoted: By promoting Sanjaya Malakar on “American Idol,” Howard Stern says he hopes to turn the talent competition into a farce and destroy its popularity.
Vote for Sanjaya :-) !
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