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...engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian descent, while 7% of valley high-tech firms are led by Indian ceos. Some successes are well known, such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Sabeer Bhatia, who founded HotMail and sold it to Microsoft for $400 million. The number of Indian American New Economy millionaires is in the thousands. Massachusetts' Gururaj Deshpande, co-founder of a number of network-technology companies, is worth between $4 billion and $6 billion...
...reform Veterans Affairs --To protect Social Security --To reach across party lines for the sake of civility in government --To reduce the number of managers in the Federal Government...
...such total vindication is about as likely as the Cubs' winning the World Series this fall. "It's not a question of total reversal," says Washington antitrust lawyer Joseph Kattan, "but [of] whether the company gets broken up." Nevertheless, there are a number of factors that could help the company slip its noose at the 11th hour. Some are more persuasive than others...
...Netaid website has been impressive: $226,272 had been donated as of last week, which included the purchase of more than 12,000 birthing kits to be distributed in Rwanda. Dr. Emmanuel d'Harcourt, the IRC coordinator in Rwanda, says women there have been "elated" by the number of kits donated. He has set up a group of more than 30 traditional birthing attendants in Kibungo, Rwanda, who will package and distribute the kits over the coming months. And D'Harcourt says the story--and reader response--has had another impact: Rwandan government officials have begun making maternal health...
...three years before he co-founded Intel with Bob Noyce--Gordon Moore published an article in Electronics magazine that turned out to be uncannily prophetic. Moore wrote that the number of circuits on a silicon chip would keep doubling every year. He later revised this to every 18 to 24 months, a forecast that has held up remarkably well over several decades and countless product cycles. How will it hold up in the future? TIME's Chris Taylor put the question to the man behind Moore...