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...firms also have to work extra hard to woo business from emerging-market companies still unaccustomed to the concept of outsourcing. Unlike CEOs in the U.S., executives in the developing world prefer to manage their technology in-house. The fact that Indian companies are relative unknowns in many parts of the world hasn't helped. Castelli says that one problem marketing the TCS brand name in Latin America has been that tata in Spanish means "daddy." "Nobody knew if we were talking about our father or the company owner or what," Castelli says. "It took time to explain that Tata...
...those early models didn't take into account the fact that compressed gas heats up, which limits how dense it can become, and in turn limits how hard its gravity can pull on the proto-planets. Beyond that, the planets' own gravity would fling gas around - the same sort of phenomenon NASA counts on, say, when a spacecraft en route to Saturn gets a slingshot velocity boost from Jupiter on the way. By adding in both effects, Mac Low's collaborator Sijme-Jan Paardekooper, now at Cambridge, found that there are places where the net force pushes a planet inward...
...where the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (Flec) is fighting for independence and a fair share of oil revenues. But you can hardly blame that decision on South Africa or extrapolate that the Jan. 8 attack portends disaster for the World Cup. What about the fact that South Africa is years ahead of Angola in terms of industrialization, organization and experience in running sporting events? What about the fact that South Africa recently held a successful warm-up tournament for the World Cup, the FIFA Confederations Cup? What about the fact that, like France...
...transcript makes it immediately clear that the Daily Intel had taken George's statement way out of context. He had been talking about “traders," not “bankers"—a fact that would have been made abundantly clear by a cursory glance at the sentence preceding or following the quote. To get the scoop, we called the author of the post, Jessica Pressler of New York Magazine...
...Peter Robinson at his home outside Belfast. Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Northern Ireland's largest political party, is known for his clinical, dispassionate public image. As the cameras rolled, Robinson appeared to fight back tears as he revealed his wife's extramarital affair and the fact that Iris had attempted suicide last March because she'd been "racked with guilt" over the relationship. The Spotlight program subsequently revealed McCambley's identity and his age at the time the affair began (he's now 21). (See the top 10 crime stories...