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...streets are wet with the dew of the coming monsoon as Rajeev Samant unveils his latest enterprise in midtown Bombay. The Tasting Room is a softly lit tapas bar built into a high-end furniture store in the old textile district. The idea is to showcase Samant's range of Indian wines in a space that oozes class and cash--with bottles costing twice the average Indian weekly wage, it's meant to be exclusive. Tonight the guests include local investment bankers, venture capitalists and a group of students from the business school in Fontainebleau, France, on a two-week...
...country's total share turnover, and the nation's central bank and hundreds of brokerages and investors have set up their Indian headquarters there, including such global powerhouses as HSBC, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Bombay's port handles half of India's trade, and its southern business district is one of the centers of the global outsourcing boom. India's music industry and much of its media are based in Bombay, as is India's Hindi film industry, Bollywood. Such a concentration of business activity breeds a sophisticated, cosmopolitan outlook--hence Bombay has India's best hotels, bars...
...such aggressive tactics will undermine quieter efforts to address health and nutrition issues. In several cities parents and teachers have succeeded in persuading school boards to remove junk food from hallways without resorting to lawsuits. A coalition of parents and teachers persuaded the Los Angeles Unified School District to ban soda sales in district schools beginning in 2004. In late August the school board will consider whether to set tougher nutrition standards for cafeteria menus and vending-machine snacks. In June the New York City Department of Education announced it would ban candy and soda from school vending machines...
...find the immediate area, Nakameguro, well worth exploring, too - it's one of the Japanese capital's hippest neighborhoods, strewn with cafés, vintage-clothing boutiques and music stores. If you can't make it to Nakameguro, there's a Cow Books branch in the swish Aoyama district, as well as a mobile library, the Traveling Cow Books service, which sets up shop at various locations across Tokyo. That way, your copy of On The Road can get on the road...
...campaigns because they were long shots.) "If I had their record, I wouldn't be eating right now," said one veteran Democratic consultant about the bloggers. In November, some of the bloggers' favorites, such as Senate candidate Jon Tester in Montana and Darcy Burner in a House district near Seattle, are running in key races that Democrats need to win if they are to take back the House or the Senate. And while some bloggers say just running liberal candidates against incumbents like Lieberman is enough, others concede that they need to actually beat Lieberman, or a Republican...