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...Shiva is Suri's own pachyderm of a child. It's a huge and lumbering novel that took seven years to write and leaves hardly any ground unfurrowed. But Meera's growth from narcissism to selflessness is too slow, and her core epiphany - what it means to be a parent - is a cliché. Suri's cyclorama of a newborn, metropolitan India, where streets are clogged not with carts but cars, can be engrossing. Too bad a prima donna stands center stage, blocking the view...
...fetching six-figure wages in Alberta--and working in -50°F (-46°C) temperatures in the winter--but Canada's traditional manufacturing hub of southern Ontario is suffering, ironically, because of its ties to the U.S. auto industry. And Canada's strengthening loonie has shed its huge cost advantage to the dollar...
When calculating the entrepreneurial risk involved, people often get the math wrong. Take starting a business, for example. Some might say Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit, took a huge risk when he left a successful career at Bain & Co. to help start the company. But Cook figured otherwise. "The worst thing that could happen to me is that I would spend a few years paying off credit-card debt. To me, it looked like a risk-free decision," he said...
...Naples, known as the Camorra, has long infiltrated the trash-collection business, turning big profits and creating environmental hazards. For more than a decade, a mix of criminal influence, government inaction and not-in-my-backyard opposition to expansions of landfills have caused on-again, off-again scenes of huge piles of trash in city streets. Estimates are that some 3,500 tons are currently waiting to be cleaned up and carried away...
...Media By Numbers I don't know a single woman between the ages of 25 and 40 who doesn't want to see this movie. If they all come out to see it - it's going to be a date movie as well - this thing is going to be huge. Just look back to Titanic, when packs of teenage girls came out to see it. Here, you could have groups of women and young adults coming to see SATC as the fun girls' night out. I wouldn't underestimate this...