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...changed nothing. Major cities are still growing right on top of earthquake fault zones. Millions live on ocean shores a couple of feet above sea level, within sight of safer, higher, more stable ground. Over the past century millions have died in volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes and tsunamis. The Indian Ocean tsunami is just one example of the price we pay for our lack of respect for Mother Earth. Once again we will bury the dead, fight disease, feed the hungry and rebuild. We will survive. But will we learn from the experience? The "unthinkable" was in fact a predictable...
...will take billions of dollars, according to Maxwell Gaylard, who heads up the United Nations' Somalia programs. "It's not total destruction, but something pretty close to it," he says. The government-in-waiting in Nairobi has neither arms nor funds. When the Asian tsunami struck the country's Indian Ocean coast, ministers had to beg the United Nations to fly them in to survey the damage. But before they can begin rebuilding the country, they must face down the powerful Islamic courts and placate the businessmen. These groups form a powerful élite that has filled the vacuum left...
...unit outside Germany. Instead of dumping its call-center work and low-end programming in Whitefield, SAP relies on the area's computer scientists and engineers to carry out its most critical activity. More than 10% of the patents filed by SAP originate in Bangalore, and the influx of Indian engineers is accelerating the adoption of English at SAP and loosening up its traditionally rigid attitude toward software engineering, says Martin Prinz, the joint managing director of SAP Labs India. "The Bangalore center is starting to change...
...said they plan to create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited India a month later, unveiling a new campus and plans to hire hundreds of software engineers. "We want access to the phenomenal engineering talent graduating out of Indian universities," Ballmer told reporters. Intel hired 800 people in India last year, and CEO Craig Barrett last fall inaugurated construction of a new building...
...developing software for their products. Philips, the Dutch consumer-electronics giant, develops and tests software for DVD players and flat-screen TVs. General Motors opened a research lab, its first outside the U.S. Others without wholly owned R.-and-D. labs are parceling out discrete pieces of research to Indian firms such as Wipro Technologies, which increased its R.-and-D. business 55% last year. "[Clients] are not doing their core-competency product engineering with us, but there's a lot of work around it," says Wipro Technologies' CEO, Vivek Paul. For example, Wipro might handle the documentation and testing...