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...zero-rupee note attacks this social problem through social, rather than political, means. Various news sources have reported that officials are often shocked and shamed when given the note and quickly perform the necessary service without a bribe. One man who was overcharged for a car-parking fine, Ashok Jain of Chennai, immediately shamed the attending policemen into charging him the correct fee by handing them a zero rupee note, and an old lady who had been fighting for a land title for years gave the note to a local official and finally received the document after over a year...
...captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a small-town boy made great, the report found that India's provincial consumers were increasing in importance, thanks to growing aspirations and incomes. "Earlier, it was just Bombay and Delhi, but since 2004 we've been seeing the rise of Tier 2 India," says Ashok Rajgopal, a partner in Ernst & Young's business-advisory services. See TIME's photo-essay "The Tempestuous Nehru Dynasty of India...
Scientists make up the bulk of the other award winners: Dee Boersma, a marine biologist at the University of Washington who found that the effects of climate change force penguins in Antarctica to swim 25 extra miles for food, putting them in greater danger of extinction. Ashok Gadgil, an environmental engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, won for inventing simple, inexpensive water-purification systems and stoves for use in the developing world. Kirk Smith, a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, was recognized for his work connecting indoor air pollution - mostly from cooking - to the premature death...
...that students really need. The National Retail Federation forecasts that spending on notebooks, folders, backpacks and lunch boxes will fall 16% this year. Analysts predict that electronic items like personal computers will also see a sales decline. "We expect that it's going to be a disappointing season," says Ashok Kumar, tech analyst at Collins Stewart, an advisory firm. Kumar points out that life cycles of desktop computers are stretching from four years to as much as six years; laptops used to last about three years; now consumers are getting an extra year out of them. "Parents are asking kids...
...York wants to stay on top, it needs to grow sustainably and efficiently, getting more out of less while improving quality of life. PlaNYC could be a model for megacities from Tehran to Tokyo. "If we can solve these challenges here, we can solve them anywhere," says Ashok Gupta, the air- and energy-program director for the Natural Resources Defense Council...