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...jangling construction elevator, it takes us 3 min. 50 sec. to ascend to the giddy heights of the 104th floor - and the building's reach for the sky won't stop there. At the current rate, says Sang, his laborers - some 4,000 construction workers, mainly from the Indian subcontinent - are adding a new story every three days. At that pace, the Burj Dubai will this week surpass Taipei 101, a 1,666-ft. (508-m) tower in Taiwan, to become the world's tallest building. When I remark how startlingly fast the Burj Dubai is rising, Sang replies simply...
...Economic liberalization has certainly brought new freedom to Indian society. Middle class households are now bombarded with American TV serials such as The Bold the Beautiful, The OC and General Hospital, and these, together with Indian equivalents, offer a palette of aspirations for modeling their lives. Young Indian women are starting to find their role models in the likes of Brooke (from The Bold and Beautiful), Ally McBeal and Rachel from Friends rather than simply following the paths of their mothers and grandmothers. Most importantly, teenage and twentysomething Indian women want the same independence as their television heroines appear...
...Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru started the Indian Institute of Technology in 1950 because he recognized that his new country needed builders- engineers who would give India the same vitality that was turning the United States into a superpower. The IIT system now includes seven campuses, and its graduates quickly became India's technological elite. A half-century later, their influence is almost as great in the U.S., where 25,000 of IIT's 100,000 graduates live. IIT grads include venture capitalists Vinod Khosla, Kanwal Rekhi and Yogen Dalal; former McKinsey managing director Rajat Gupta; Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin...
...often been called the MIT or Harvard of India, but there's a big difference - IIT is a lot more selective than the top Ivy League schools. About 250,000 Indian students take the first screening exam for a spot at an IIT; 100,000 make it to the next round; but only 4,000 are eventually selected. Even if they could make the cut at IIT, however, the brightest young American students are less likely now than they were a generation ago to choose engineering. The number of engineering grads in the U.S. peaked in 1986 at close...
...will take more than a CSI: Palo Alto to reverse that trend. Engineering in the U.S. needs a rebranding. IIT went through such a transformation after the tech bubble burst in 2001, when engineers - Indian and American alike- were being laid off by the thousands. That's when some of the school's most prominent alumni decided to turn IIT into a brand combining the brainpower of engineering with the excitement (not to mention the big money) of entrepreneurship, by playing up the accomplishments of IITans like Umang Gupta, CEO of the web services company Keynote and employee...