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...curiously lopsided" way in which India's economy has boomed. Why does a country that is home to advanced high-tech and manufacturing companies still have about 400 million illiterate people and high unemployment? In so many aspects of its economy, Luce notes, "India finds itself higher on the ladder than one would expect it to be," yet "most of its population are still standing at the bottom." Many articles and books on India end here, but Luce explains the reasons for India's interminable paradoxes, arguing they are the logical outcomes of illogical polices...
Additionally, the quality of Harvard’s instruction can also be drastically improved by expanding the hiring of full-time, non-tenure track teachers. Harvard has needless and counterproductive restrictions on how long one can teach at Harvard if one is not on the ladder to become a tenured professor. These archaic policies should be rescinded so that Harvard can attract the best teachers in addition to the best researchers...
...smaller than a typical U.S. or European supermarket - no bigger in most cases than a large convenience store, although Reliance promises that much bigger supermarkets are in the pipeline. All will be clean, air-conditioned and have stock neatly displayed on wide shelves that you don't need a ladder to reach. The convenience of shopping in just one place is sure to lure a lot of customers and small shop owners worry that the supermarkets will force them out of business. I can see they have reason to worry - I'll certainly opt for the supermarkets - but I hope...
...dust the shelves, cans, packets and produce every day; aisles filled with stacks of boxes and heaped bags that create obstacle courses, and floor-to-ceiling shelves that can reach up to 15 feet high. If you want something on the highest shelves an assistant will either climb a ladder or use a long wooden pole with a small nail attached to its end to flick cans or boxes forwards into space and, hopefully, catch them as they tumble towards the floor...
After all, the problems of poverty and racism, the uninsured and the unemployed, are not simply technical problems in search of the perfect 10-point plan. They are also rooted in societal indifference and individual callousness - the desire among those at the top of the social ladder to maintain their wealth and status whatever the cost, as well as the despair and self-destructiveness among those at the bottom...