Word: tech
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...story line for Bill Clinton's visit to India this week, the first by an American President in 22 years, is a travelogue in the "new," high-tech India. But India's realities are far messier. The nation's ongoing cold--and at moments hot--war with Pakistan became more dangerous still when both nations tested nuclear weapons in 1998. And nowhere are the contradictions of globalization more manifest. India's economy is growing at 6%, and software exports are increasing 50% a year; last month an Indian technology magnate--Wipro's Azim Premji--became one of the world...
...yacht packed with vacationing millionaires off the coast of St. Bart's is an unlikely laboratory for social-policy reform. So perhaps it was the Caribbean sea breeze or the free-flowing 1945 Mouton-Rothschild that got Michael Saylor, the 35-year-old CEO of the high-tech company MicroStrategy, thinking about how to amend the inequities in higher education. He shared his thoughts over sea bass and chocolate souffle. "And by the end of the evening," he recalls, "I knew I'd hit on the next big thing in education...
...care crunch, but the exhaustion and lack of familial connection of "ships passing in the night" parenting is hardly a solution. Parents working early and late shifts often turn to the neighbor network, sharing child-care duties with co-workers or plugging in to the tried and true low-tech child-care referral service found on bulletin boards at churches, pediatricians' offices and schools. But even when "the village" takes a hand in raising a child, these same parents should be sure to check references carefully...
Fresh off a two-game sweep of Georgia Tech on Tuesday, the Terrapins (14-13) are led by sophomore pitcher Amanda Bettkar (7-6, 1.54 ERA), who has allowed just 66 hits in 91 innings of work...
...Crimson's fiercest competition at that tourney will likely be Virginia Tech, who enter this weekend riding a 22-game winning streak at home...