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...with shady trees ... Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens." After his death in 1904, the city took his name, becoming Jamshedpur. Tata Steel introduced a series of worker benefits that would become common only much later in the West, such as the eight-hour working day in 1912, maternity benefits in 1928 and profit sharing in 1934. Today Jamshedpur, with free housing, free hospitals and free schools, sports stadiums and clean streets, remains the envy of the country. In 2004, the U.N. chose it - along with Melbourne and San Francisco...
...years. After 15 years as chairman, however, Tata says he is thinking of retiring. Asked how he would spend his days, he says he gave up golf long ago and has almost no free time outside the business. On rare evenings off, he says he takes a half-hour boat ride across Bombay harbor to a small, scruffy beach house. "It seldom had power, so I had to put in a small generator," he says. "It's quiet and away from everywhere. There is a town and there are neighbors, but I go quietly on my own. I walk...
...billion check. Soldiers at home and around the world were on high alert, and ready. "This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger," the President said. "This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way and at an hour of our choosing." But it 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills...
...under surveillance every second ? anything that isn't a hindrance is considered neutral." But with 100,000 copies sold since April, Saviano is no longer considered neutral, and no longer safe. After getting death threats from the local organized crime syndicate, he's keeping a low profile under 24-hour guard. Umberto Eco has compared the situation to the Islamic fatwa against Salman Rushdie, but the mob's violent persecution of muckrakers is, in fact, a particularly Italian legacy. "You need journalists," says Giovanni De Mauro, a Rome magazine editor whose journalist uncle was killed by the mob. "But then...
Following the recent trend of jazz re-releases, the newly released Weather Report box set “Forecast: Tomorrow” includes over three hours of their best tracks squeezed onto three discs as well as a newly discovered two-hour DVD from a German TV station that captures the group in concert in 1978 with the astoundingly energetic Jaco Pastorius on electric bass...