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...need for playing room cannot be overstated. We selected Tennis for two players. The TV's wide screen split into two frames, one for each side of the court. I tossed the ball in the air with a tap of a button, then swung my arm. A perfect serve. Chris returned the serve with a flick of his wrist, then I swung again. Early clumsiness fast became aggressive, aerobic, precise gesticulation. You develop a forehand, a backhand, even an overhead smash, just like on the real courts, and you work up a sweat doing it. Each time the virtual racquet...
...numbers suggest. The $6.6 billion in Gates grants for global health have come over a half-decade—and a small slice of that money has gone toward research. By comparison, the National Institutes of Health, the arm of the federal government that finances medical research, has awarded more than $15.5 billion in grants in the last year alone...
...global clout means that its chairman's thoughts get concrete results. Tata comprises 96 companies, including the world's second largest tea business (Tata Tea), Asia's largest software firm (Tata Consultancy Services), a steel giant (Tata Steel), a hotel chain (Indian Hotels) and a sprawling vehicle-manufacturing arm (Tata Motors) that includes a bicycle factory in Zambia and a project to make a car selling for $2,200. Since Tata became chairman in 1991, he has multiplied the Tata group revenues seven times to an annual $21.13 billion. Since 2000, the group's market value has multiplied almost...
...family's reward for this progressive capitalism was to have its airline and insurance arm nationalized by the post-independence government in 1947. For decades the Tatas lay low while the "license Raj" slowly made India globally uncompetitive...
...controversial total ban on abortion) and its courts, and to freeze out the country's more moderate parties. One key dividend for Ortega: In 2001 a Sandinista judge dismissed Narvaez's sexual abuse charges against Ortega, despite the fact that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, has ruled that her case has merit. The dismissal, along with the new power Ortega has amassed in recent years via his alliance with Aleman, has helped make the Sandinista leader Sunday's front-runner, with 30% or more of the vote in recent polls...