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...disagree with Simon Robinson who found Bangalore a pocket of prosperity in a country steeped in poverty, malnourishment and corruption. Western visitors are led to believe that this once charming small town is India's Silicon Valley. But there is the same gap between the advertised image of a prosperous city and the stark reality; it is the same hype surrounding the "Incredible India" campaign. Come monsoon rains, many homes in this hi-tech city will be flooded with rainwater and sewage sludge. Good roads, metro rail, airports and other facilities have been on the drawing board for years...
...would levy. What's more, the relatively low salaries and wages in Florida's tourism-driven economy "are hardly commensurate with those of the states we're being compared with today, like California and New York," says Cancela, who heads the Miami-based marketing firm Hispanic USA. That growing gap between incomes and housing prices has all but wiped away Florida's historical luster as a paradise for new homebuyers...
...Seeking to address this lack of collaboration, the University created the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in 2004 as an attempt to bridge the gap between basic and applied life sciences, as well as to address the social, ethical, and religious issues raised by stem cell research...
...Elizabeth Mora, the vice president for finance who came to Harvard in 1997, said the duo “masterfully bridged the gap...
...believes Japan is a paragon of healthy eating. Flipping through a thick binder, she shows photos of dinner tables topped with McDonald's Happy Meals, skimpy take-out rice balls, a microwavable hamburger steak - the same kind of fast food on which a harried Western family might survive. "The gap between what we think the Japanese eat and what they really eat is enormous," says Iwamura, a lead marketer for the Tokyo advertising agency Asatsu-DK. "I can't imagine how bad Japanese health really is. I'm surprised these families are still alive...