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...like milk or you can age like wine. You can live life with a sell-by date, counting the days until everything goes sour and a new shipment of 2% takes your place on the shelf. Or your career can be like a fine Bordeaux, and you can make the kind of music that only improves as time goes...
...losers in any move to cut back on fossil fuel consumption are inevitably going to be oil-producing countries. Nigeria has demanded financial compensation for oil-producing nations as part of any agreement to cut reliance on their leading export. And we all know how easily they can make their displeasure felt in an industrialized world still mostly dependent on their product...
...still low in India, but they are a lot higher than in the past, and the result is a growing middle techno-class. Rohini Ramdas and Rohit Mani are a young Bangalore couple, married just eight months and facing the usual struggles of trying to furnish an apartment and make the monthly car payments. They are software engineers at a subsidiary of ANZ Grindlays Bank. They work long hours for a combined income of nearly $17,000 a year, though annual raises can reach 50%. "This industry is so cushy, so comfortable," Mani says. "My peers in manufacturing have...
...says his service has more potential for growth than software because it can employ Indians with nonspecialized education. Some 100 Indian companies are doing medical transcription already, and Selectronic operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year--a claim that Indian power companies and telephone exchanges can barely make. There are challenges to the job. Speed is a must; the company promises a 24-hour turnaround. So, too, is accuracy, and that poses challenges for Indians dealing with American English, which is why those U.S. TV programs are part of the training program. One worker couldn't understand...
...India is attempting to duplicate the Warana experiment in other parts of the country, if its notoriously inefficient bureaucracy allows this. Nearly two years after the project was launched at Warana, for example, the state government has yet to make digital copies of the region's land records, an essential step for simplifying land transactions and revenue collection...