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...anything for charity." And lest this all sounds too good to be true, the group is not free from controversy. In 2001, Tata Finance sacked its managing director and five other senior managers over alleged financial irregularities. In January, Tata Steel's plans to build a mill in the eastern state of Orissa went tragically awry when police fired on protesters who were accusing the state government acting as a broker in the development of making profits on the sale of their land. Twelve were killed. But to shed 40,000 employees at Jamshedpur, Tata Steel offered to pay their...
...since February, after six months of traditional physical therapy failed to cure his strained neck. Six weeks into acupuncture with Nolan, he is feeling much better. "I have no idea why it works," Dixon, 41, says, "but this problem is almost gone." Nolan attributes Dixon's symptoms to an Eastern concept known as a "cold-wind" condition and says the acupuncture treatment rebalances energies in his patient's body. That explanation may raise haughty eyebrows in the clinics and consulting rooms of mainstream medicine, but increasing numbers of Europeans are embracing alternative treatments such as acupuncture, chiropractic manipulation, homeopathy...
...according to India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)--and the country's technical colleges aren't producing highly skilled workers quickly enough. So foreign companies are turning to low-cost markets outside India, like China, the Philippines and Eastern Europe, to do more of their grunt work. "China has much the same resources as us: great pools of talent and a young workforce--and better schools, airports and roads," says Kiran Karnik, president of NASSCOM...
...people out of despair will help define the nation's future. The country's pro-growth Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has said he dreams that Bombay will someday make people "forget Shanghai"--China's financial capital, whose modern gleam is a reminder of the gap between India and its eastern rival. Right now it's not much of a contest. India's GDP (gross domestic product) growth was 8.4% last year vs. 10% for China, while foreign investment in India was an estimated $8.4 billion, compared with $72.4 billion in China...
...happening. Coachella's relatively underwhelming lineup last April was probably hurt more than helped by the last-minuterecruitment of Madonna, who had some hard-core rockers grumbling that the festival hadbesmirchedits indie-rock soul with Material Girl pop gloss. The resulting rift - left coast trendies in the desert vs. Eastern roots rockers - has polarized fans, who have been duking it out in blogs and message boards for months...