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...years after Indonesia's deadly wave, Thai and U.S. experts are set to install next month the first tsunami-detection buoy -- loaded with seismic and tidal sensors--in the Indian Ocean...
...resources both on universities and on primary schools. That's produced a class of English-speaking engineering graduates who can compete with anyone in the world. But the flip side of diverting a big chunk of the education budget to create and run sophisticated universities is that millions of Indians have been left without basic education. Another puzzle is why only 7 million Indians?as opposed to 100 million in China?are employed in the formal manufacturing sector. A major reason is that state laws make it very difficult for factories to lay off workers, Luce explains. As a result...
...public funds meant for promoting literacy, roads and electrification in his state are "diverted"?embezzled by bureaucrats?versus 70% in the north. The result: half of Tamil Nadu now lives in cities, where the standard of living tends to be higher, whereas 90% of the population of the northern Indian state of Bihar still lives in villages. And if you're wondering what life in an Indian village is like, Luce describes it vividly: "The tubercular hacking cough is as common a sound in the north Indian village as the lowing of the cattle or the ringing of the temple...
...time to get a fridge and washing machine, for which I headed across town to a street lined with electronics stores. Buying these bigger items proved easy and after a phone call to my wife to get her endorsement of my choices (Indian men call this checking with the Home Minister), I headed home with the promise that my purchases would be delivered within a few hours. The expedition had taken just over four hours...
Even then, Bristol-Myers Squibb was charging African patients about 40 percent more than an Indian manufacturer offered for the same drug, The New York Times reported...