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Gurgaon has become the official stomping ground of Swati Jain and Yamini Kandari, both 22, roommates and co-workers at a nearby call center, where they field phone traffic for a U.S. computer maker. Every weekend they stroll the malls shopping for Levi's jeans, watch movies and make the obligatory stop at McDonald's. Though they both have big dreams (Kandari wants a Ferrari; Jain prefers a Mercedes), they spend half their annual salaries--about $2,000--on shopping, eating out and other living expenses. "I'm living life for the day," says Kandari...
...mill college grad with little idea of what to do next. He tagged along with a friend visiting a call center. The recruiter there asked if he would interview for a job, and he scribbled out a resume on the spot. His first task was troubleshooting for U.S. computer-maker customers over the phone, working all night in New Delhi to help Americans with their PCs during the day. Since then, Kedia moved to a similar company and has been promoted twice to manager. His salary has quadrupled to $6,200 annually--a treasure in a country where...
...prospect of his replacement by Azahari is hardly comforting. "Azahari was put through the most senior level training courses in Afghanistan," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book on al-Qaeda in Asia. "He is charismatic. He has the ability to recruit. He's a very accomplished bomb maker. And his fingerprints are already all over [JI's biggest operations...
...Gurgaon has become the official stomping ground of Swati Jain and Yamini Kandari, both 22, roommates and co-workers at a nearby call center, where they field phone traffic for a U.S. computer maker. Every weekend they stroll the malls shopping for Levi's jeans, watch movies and make the obligatory stop at McDonald's. Though they both have big dreams (Kandari wants a Ferrari; Jain prefers a Mercedes), they spend half their annual salaries?about $2,000?on shopping, eating out and other living expenses. "I'm living life for the day," says Kandari...
...carbohydrates that have minimal impact on insulin levels. But as most diabetics know, too much of this fake sugar can cause intestinal discomfort. Some Hershey's lovers learned that lesson the hard way earlier this year when, after 10 years in the lab, the world's third biggest chocolate maker introduced sugar-free versions of its flagship chocolate bars and Reese's peanut butter cups. For its sweetener, Hershey settled on a sugar alcohol called lactitol, which happens to be the brand name of a British laxative. "I had one--ONE--of the mini Reese...