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Incredibly, cricket is not India's national sport. That title goes to another English import, field hockey. But as anyone who has ever stepped foot in India can tell you, there is really only one game that matters here and it's not hockey. In the build-up to the quadrennial World Cup - which opened Tuesday in Jamaica - cricket has dominated social conversation, magazine covers and the airwaves. "Cricket is the only game that can stop life in India," says Apurva Anand, a 21-year-old architecture student. "For the next few weeks my studies will just have...
...thriving. The U.S. import has taken root in the Palestinian territories and Israel, evolving into a gritty hybrid expression of the Arab-Israeli conflict that steers clear of the original's current preoccupations with flashy wealth, gangster attitudes and fast women. "It's preposterous to pose as a gangster out here," says Sagol, 59, hailed as the Israeli godfather of hip-hop. Instead, Israeli and Palestinian artists have borrowed from earlier, more socially conscious rappers such as Shakur, and sharpened their songs to a razorlike political edge...
...Opposition to the SEZs is coming even from free-market reformists. Most of India's newest investment zones are much smaller than China's and may not be economically viable in the long term. The tax breaks, which include a five-year holiday on profits tax and exemption from import and excise duty, are also much more generous than those in other countries. Critics of India's approach worry that its SEZs will not attract new investment but merely suck in investment already headed to India while hurting tax revenues. Also, India's Special Economic Zones have so far attracted...
...More surprising, not to mention more encouraging, was Bush's announced goal of reducing gasoline use by 20% in 10 years - the equivalent of three-quarters of all the oil we import today from the Middle East - and supplementing this savings by flowing 35 billion gallons of renewable fuels into the national energy pool...
...presidential campaign. "I can do it in a 60-second spot," he said. "Put me on the clock." And he was off to the races: "Folks, we've got a problem. We Americans use 6.5 billion bbl. of oil a year. We produce 2.5 billion ourselves. We import 4 billion from the world's worst dictators. We need to stop doing that. We can save 1 billion bbl. through conservation. Things like more efficient cars, homes and appliances. We can produce another 1 billion bbl. of biofuels with agricultural crops like corn, soybeans and canola. We can produce 2 billion...