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...license or request a copy of a birth certificate online. The company charged a small fee--25 rupees, or 55˘, to apply for a driver's license, say--but the applicant saved 10 times that amount by reducing the number of visits to a government office in an often distant regional center. The system worked well at first. "But we discovered that there was a lot of pent-up demand and that after some time that demand went right down," says Mishra...
...Watson had an interesting early life. He was a highly motivated child who had to work hard to get an education during the Depression and World War II. In fact, a number of childhood coincidences seemed to destine him for greatness. Not only was Watson a not-too-distant cousin of Orson Welles, he also played handball on a field at the University of Chicago that covered the lab where researchers were developing the atomic bomb. In Watson’s adult years, he made good on his early promise, using his education to rise...
...with environmentalists thousands of miles away. Yet, Ndivo's three-acre farm in rural Kenya is in the front line of a dispute that pitches eco-minded Western consumers against poor African communities: The consumers, concerned by the global-warming effect of burning jet fuel to fly produce from distant lands to European supermarkets, are pressing supermarkets to curb such imports; the farmers see flying fashionable baby aubergines and mange tout peas to Europe as their ticket out of poverty...
...barrel on Tuesday, but the next generation of consumers could look back on that price with envy. The dire predictions of a key report on international oil supplies released Wednesday suggest that oil prices could move irreversibly over the $100-a-barrel threshold in the not too distant future, as the global economy faces a serious energy shortage...
Since a Massachusetts referendum abolished rent control in 1994, property values in Cambridge have skyrocketed. Some say that the influx of affluent residents who are not originally from Cambridge has resulted in a electorate that is more distant from city government...