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...sector is roaring again. Revenues for India's IT businesses will grow by a heady 40% this year, according to Vijay Baoney, a technology analyst at Indian brokerage house Enam Securities. The problem for companies is finding enough midlevel executives who can train, groom and oversee the influx of raw recruits. "Experienced hires are not there on the scale that the industry needs them," says Hema Ravichandar, head of human resources at Infosys, one of the three largest Indian IT companies...
...petrochemicals are a major component of plastic, and Yuyao?often known as "Plastics City"?is under siege. According to local merchants, the price of a ton of ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), a common ingredient in hard-plastic products, has virtually doubled since March. "The prices for raw materials have gotten so high that no one is making a profit," says Mrs. Xu, who runs a small raw-materials factory with her husband. Xu, who declined to give her full name, says many of the factories she supplies have gone bankrupt this summer. Xu Songquan (no relation), who has been...
...Another factor affecting quality is the brains of your camera: it needs to have enough processing power to turn raw data into a beautiful picture. The quality of the lens is also important to ensure that your picture is focused and to pull in enough light to get a good exposure. "If you have a bad lens, the number of megapixels doesn't mean anything," says Atsushi Tashiro, a product-development manager for Fujifilm...
...most visually inventive since the turn-of-the-century height of newspaper cartoonists like Winsor McCay and Lyonel Feininger. Drawing in a black and white style that could well be classified as Art Brut, it defies any preconceptions of what a comic strip should look like. Beyer stuffs his raw caricatures into the corners of zany layouts, no two of which are alike. And a good thing, too. It would be unreadable otherwise. Even smart strip collections like the "Complete Peanuts" suffer from the monotony of the square panels and the tedious pace of setup?development?punch line. Printed with...
...micron is tiny - 1/24,500 of an inch.) The advantage of a larger pixel is that it is able to pick up more information about the image it is sensing. Another factor affecting quality is the brains of your camera: it needs to have enough processing power to turn raw data into a beautiful picture. The quality of the lens is also important to ensure that your picture is focused and to pull in enough light to get a good exposure. "If you have a bad lens, the number of megapixels doesn't mean anything," says Atsushi Tashiro, a product...