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...higher than in almost any other country, including Japan (50 percent), Spain (33 percent), and Turkey (12 percent). Indians admire American leaders that reach out to them and treat them as equal partners, as President Kennedy did when he remarked that Indian independence leaders shared “the great aspirations of people all over the world” or President Bush did when he suggested joint military training and missions...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: A Strong Bond | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

Perez-Moreno called the program a “great opportunity” for student groups on campus and added that he hoped it will bring more attention to the arts on campus...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus To Unfold New Seats | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...state that worshipped condo-flippers as great entrepreneurs, it was all a house of cards waiting to be blown down when the housing bubble burst. Now that it has happened, those Floridians who haven't left the state had hoped their officials might change the way they do things - or at least not attend a Kentucky Derby party hosted by the same FPL honchos lobbying them for a rate hike, as a Florida Public Service Commission director has admitted to doing a few months ago. But if Miami and Florida officials can't get their acts together, they can probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Florida's Exodus: Rising Taxes, Political Ineptitude | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...opening a huge new market to Apple. China now has nearly 700 million mobile phones in use, almost as many as the next two largest mobile-phone nations - India and the U.S. - combined. "Apple needs a good international success story to keep their momentum going, and China is a great candidate for that," says Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA, a Beijing-based telecommunications consultancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the iPhone Will Change the Chinese Phone Market | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...mystery. A code-busting artifact with bilingual text, like the Rosetta stone, has yet to be found. By some counts, more than 100 decipherments of the civilization's often anthropomorphic runes and signs - known in the field as the Harappan script - have been attempted over the decades, none with great success. Some archaeologists spied parallels with the cuneiform of Mesopotamia. Others speculated an unlikely link between Harappan signs and the similarly inscrutable "bird-men" glyphs found thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean on Easter Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding the Ancient Script of the Indus Valley | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

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