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...other two new movies in wide release were both romantic comedies. Youth in Revolt, approximately the 67th film in which Michael Cera tries to lose his virginity, amassed $7 million on 1,873 screens - not bad at all. It managed a higher per-screen average than Leap Year, the widely reviled rom-com that sends Amy Adams to Ireland to find true love and get very wet and muddy. Leap Year took in $9.2 million. The direct competition for Adams, who played Julie in Julie & Julia, was in another romantic comedy about a woman who must choose between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Avatar Weekend: Pandorans Defeat Vampires | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...NASSCOM's Gupta calls the crisis an "inflexion point" that has jarred Bangalore into moving more quickly into markets with higher potential for economic growth. K.R. Lakshminarayana, chief strategy officer at Wipro, says that, with the West mired in "an economic reboot," his company has over the past two years opened operations centers in China, Egypt and the Philippines, while expanding others in Brazil and Romania. These markets, he says, will help Wipro achieve its primary goal: "the maintenance of velocity." (Read "Stressed Out in India's Tech Capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outsourcers Go Global | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...company's revenue base, decreasing the U.S. share from the current 65% to 40%, while raising the proportion coming from the Middle East, Latin America and Asia from about 12% to 20%. "The U.S. continues to grow," says S. Gopalakrishnan, CEO of Infosys, but "we can get higher growth rates in [emerging] markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outsourcers Go Global | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...would guess, for example, that the states with the world's highest ratio of women to men in higher education are in the gulf. In Kuwait, women were elected to parliament for the first time this year. And women have been appointed to important ministerial posts in neighboring countries; Jordan has four women in its Cabinet, including Hala Latouf, the Minister for Social Development. There are women judges, too, in Palestine, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates - something that would have been hard to imagine a generation ago. And women are taking an increasingly prominent role in the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Change We Need | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...Opponents argue that the people who are covered by those policies are, in many instances, far from wealthy. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that about 1 in 5 workers would be affected by the tax in 2016. And among unionized workers, particularly in states where health costs are higher than average, the percentages are even higher. For instance, the Connecticut Education Association, which delivered petitions to its congressional delegation that were signed by 10,000 of the state's teachers, estimates that the tax would hit 40% of its members the first year alone. And under the provision's indexing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Dems Bridge Their Health Care 'Cadillac' Tax Divide? | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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