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...heritage with modern business sense. Targeting the bottom of the income pyramid - a lot of people with a little, rather than a few with a lot - ticks both boxes. Tata points out that consumption, as it is understood in the West, is still a dream for all but a fraction of 3 billion people in the developing world. Only 58 million Indians, out of the country's 1.1 billion population, earn more than $4,400 a year, according to Delhi's National Council of Applied Economic Research. The challenge is to make consumers out of people whose disposable income would...
...faculty where less than 19 percent of 478 tenured professors are women.The report by Lisa L. Martin, the FAS senior adviser on diversity, called the drop a “troubling reversal.” The dramatic fall in women’s acceptances came even though the fraction of tenure-track offers to women rose slightly, to 39 percent, last academic year.“It’s hard to know whether this is just a one-year blip or whatever,” Martin, the Dillon professor of international affairs, said in a phone interview...
...little bit ahead of their seven-seat,” junior Moritz Hafner says. “But our boat was a little bit shorter. Still, it took them more than 15 minutes to really figure it out by looking at the photo.”Only the minutest fraction of Cornell’s bow ball kept Harvard from snatching its eighth national title.“How we ended the season last year will just fuel our competitive spirit this season,” senior Brian Aldrich says. “I definitely want one after what happened...
...Council leaders said yesterday. According to Undergraduate Council (UC) Public Relations Director Benjamin W. Milder ’08, 125 students are competing for 33 slots this election cycle, which begins today and continues until Thursday, with an average of 3.79 candidates per seat. This year is just a fraction more competitive than the previous record in 2003, when an average of 3.78 candidates ran per seat. Every House election will be competitive, with at least three candidates per seat, and 77 freshmen will be vying for a total of eight UC seats. This election is more than twice...
...sometime in the next few weeks, a team led by molecular geneticist Svante Pbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, will announce an even more stunning achievement: the sequencing of a significant fraction of the genome of Neanderthals--the human-like species we picture when we hear the word caveman--who are far closer to us genetically than chimps are. And though Neanderthals became extinct tens of thousands of years ago, Pbo is convinced he's on the way to reconstructing the entire genome of that long-lost relative, using...