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Having trouble getting credit in these trying economic times? Don't feel bad, so is Steven Spielberg. His DreamWorks SKG is waiting for a $500-million deal with Indian entertainment conglomerate Reliance to close. It would allow the company behind movies like Tropic Thunder and Transformers to abandon an unhappy partnership with Viacom's Paramount Pictures and produce six films a year at another studio. The hitch keeping DreamWorks and Reliance from sealing the deal is the challenge of raising an additional several hundred million dollars in debt financing at a time when Wall Street is feeling pretty stingy about...
...poor countries have shown rapid results from investments in maternal health: in Honduras, for example, maternal mortality rates dropped about 50% from 1990 to '97 after officials opened scores of rural clinics and trained thousands of midwives. Nepal and Sri Lanka have trained midwives in emergency obstetrics. In the Indian states of Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, pregnant women now get 1,400 rupees ($32) to spend on whatever maternity services they choose--even a taxi ride to a clinic to give birth. Afghanistan has built 1,465 clinics and trained about 19,000 community health workers since the Taliban...
...find this both interesting and disturbing.' HENRY T. GREELY, Stanford Law bioethicist, after an Indian court convicted a suspect on the basis of evidence from a brain scan--a first...
Anuradha Roy, a publisher based mostly in New Delhi, sets her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, during the Indian subcontinent's most momentous years. Between 1907, when the novel opens, and its conclusion circa 1956, the subcontinent saw the struggle for independence and tragedy of partition. But these impinge on Roy's tale of private lives subtly, almost as noises offstage - for the novel is above all a love story...
Uncertainty is everywhere. India's financial services and technology companies, which rely on Wall Street for so much of their business, are still waiting to see exactly how badly they'll be hit. Estimates of potential job losses in India reach as high as 25,000. Tata-AIG, an Indian joint venture with troubled U.S. insurer AIG, has been asked by Indian insurance regulators to show proof of its solvency. The market turbulence is especially worrying for India's middle classes, who have just begun investing on their own in a big way. (A new Bollywood movie, Saas, Bahu...