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...insistence on measurable results. For example, the Azim Premji Foundation, funded by the billionaire head of Bangalore-based software company Wipro, is helping to reform India's education sector by implementing on-the-ground assessments of the effectiveness of teaching programs at thousands of schools in the country's Karnataka state. It's no coincidence that many of India's most innovative philanthropists come from the Bangalore tech sector, home to relatively young, self-made tycoons who often have more global experience than counterparts in China or Japan. "India is much more connected internationally," says Jai Mukherjee of New Philanthropy...
...Rush of Blood to the Head, the rock band didn't want the album's production and distribution to add to the greenhouse gases flowing into the atmosphere. So, working with a small British firm, the CarbonNeutral Co., the group bought 10,000 mango trees for villagers in Karnataka, India. Since plants breathe in carbon dioxide as they grow, Coldplay figures the mango trees will eventually neutralize all the CO2 released in the making and selling...
...ironic that while Mozart's compositions are used for the purpose of healing, it is alleged that Eminem's rapping and ranting are used by the U.S. to torture prisoners in detention camps in Afghanistan. Truly, music has crossed any boundaries we humans had envisioned for it. Jeanette Rodrigues Karnataka, India...
...ironic that while Mozart's compositions are used for the purpose of healing, it is alleged that Eminem's rapping and ranting are used by the U.S. to torture prisoners in detention camps in Afghanistan. Truly, music has crossed any boundaries we humans had envisioned for it. Jeanette Rodrigues Karnataka, India Unchecked Presidential Power Klein's criticism of the democrats was way off the mark [Jan. 16]. Liberals want to track down the bad guys as much as anybody. But government officials have to get a warrant before they start wiretapping! Klein surmises that a majority of Americans would favor...
...strongest evidence that this was a rebellion against incumbents rather than an endorsement of the Congress Party's own policies came in the state of Karnataka, whose capital Bangalore is considered the epicenter of India's high-tech boom. There, the BJP won handsomely - the incumbent, of course, was a Congress man. Congress also lost its control of Kerala province, not to the BJP but to the Communists. Indeed, the parties of the socialist Left made their best showing in more than a decade...