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...They, and increasingly the rest of India's citizens, are simmering with the feeling that things are not right. From public anger over Mumbai's botched response to the 2008 terror attacks, to rising alarm over the Maoist insurgency across a wide stretch of central India, to the frustrations expressed in the biggest Bollywood hit ever - a 2009 film, 3 Idiots, that skewers the grade-obsessed higher-education system - India is a country ready for unflinching points of view. "India is not a poor country," Bissell says. "It's a poorly managed country...
...Beijing has already decided, apparently, that a North Korea with nukes is less destabilizing than a North Korea in chaos, with tens of thousands of impoverished souls pouring across its border into China. But Beijing knows no one is going to attack North Korea - knows that in its heart and soul. It knows no such thing about Iran. Prior to Barack Obama's summit meeting with Hu Jintao last year, two U.S. diplomats quietly slipped into Beijing and, in secret, reinforced the obvious: There's this other country in the region called Israel and, well, we're just not sure...
...Tribeca Film Festival, while private investors put together a $200 million fund to jump-start the local film industry. While there have been some cutbacks on salaries and benefits at state-run news network al-Jazeera, according to disgruntled employees, the operation continues to set the news agenda across the Middle East...
...other type of reality show descends from The Real World's naked voyeurism. Some of these shows are about celebrities, former celebrities or pseudo celebrities. Some are about therapy, about work or about parenting. And many are just about life. Bravo's Real Housewives series is still spreading across the country like Cheesecake Factory franchises. (The Salahis snuggled up to the President as candidates for The Real Housewives of D.C.) When Jon and Kate Gosselin drew 10 million viewers to watch their marriage end on TLC, reality TV proved it wasn't going into middle age quietly...
...McDonald's - although the company could change that, since its menu decisions quickly become global agricultural concerns. Not long after he arrived at McDonald's in 2004, Coudreaut added to the menu an Asian salad that included edamame. The Soyfoods Council, a trade group, immediately got calls from consumers across the nation looking to buy edamame at their grocery stores. "Now you can find it in supermarkets all over," says the council's executive director, Linda Funk, who has even seen the immature soybean pods sold near her small hometown of Janesville...