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Such conspicuous revelry has turned India's wedding- planning industry into a $10 billion market and has stoked a consumer boom that coincides with the November-February marriage season. Commodity analysts say Indian demand for gold wedding jewelry helped lift the metal's price to a 25-year high last month. Among the beneficiaries are entrepreneurs like Neeta Raheja, who runs a wedding-planning company called Creative Explosions. The firm organizes weddings that range from $20,000 (the average cost of a wedding blast in the U.S.) to $2 million, which gets you hand-painted invitations by artist M.F. Husain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From New Delhi: Land of the Wedding Planners | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...goaltender Alison Quandt, with 23 saves for the night, continued to frustrate the Crimson offense. “We got some great saves,” Eagles coach Tom Mutch said. “To get an early lead…gave us a little comfort zone, a little lift.” And with that energy, BC kept Harvard scoreless in the first period. As the second period opened, the Eagles again kept the pressure on the Crimson, not allowing easy shots on goal. Though Harvard’s strength this season has been its ability to score during...

Author: By Vincent R. Oletu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Eliminated from Beanpot with Shutout Loss | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...Such conspicuous revelry has turned India's wedding-planning industry into a $10 billion market and has stoked a consumer boom that coincides with the November-February marriage season. Commodity analysts say Indian demand for gold wedding jewelry helped lift the metal's price to a recent 25-year high. Among the beneficiaries are entrepreneurs like Neeta Raheja, who runs a wedding-planning company called Creative Explosions. The firm organizes weddings that range from $20,000 (the average cost of a wedding in the U.S.) to $2 million, which gets you hand-painted invitations by artist M.F. Husain, a Thai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from India: Land of the Wedding Planners | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...having righted a Nagano wrong by winning the gold medal in 2002 in Salt Lake City, the focus in Torino--pre-Gretzky, anyway--was supposed to shift at least slightly to the rest of the country's Olympic athletes. The C.O.C. is challenging its skiers, skaters and sliders to lift Canada to third place overall at this year's Games, up from fourth in Salt Lake City. With the Vancouver-Whistler Games on the horizon, the C.O.C. views Torino as an early indicator of whether Canada has any hope of achieving No. 1 status in 2010. "We understand that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Game On, Canada! | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...rising tide of science and technology will lift all boats, but we must be sure everyone has a chance to get aboard. The SMART grants may not be the perfect solution, but they certainly deserve better than their treatment in Reva P. Minkoff and Ramya Parthasarathy’s piece...

Author: By Daniel H. Slichter | Title: Incentives For Study of Science A Benefit to Society | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

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