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...Sound like a Mecca for lazy Harvard students? Don’t hold your breath...
...first graduating class at Dale Carnegie Training, which has just set up shop in the IT mecca of Bangalore, has lapped up its lessons in the art of winning friends and influencing people in transnational corporate culture. Among the Indian techies and management graduates who flocked to this Silicon Valley-in-training opportunity is 28-year-old IT professional Pallavi Deshpande. "I was overwhelmed when I moved to Bangalore last year. I saw all these IT people who looked so smart and spoke perfect English," she says, "And I realized that my MCA [master's degree in Computer Applications...
...bigger touch-screens in the dining halls. And they’ll smell terrible, since Harvard will have shut off their shower to conserve water and make the campus “greener.” But at least they will have four glorious years in Harvard Square, that mecca of neighborhood banking and tortilla-wrapped fast food...
...movie last weekend at Los Angeles' Landmark Pavilion theater, an art-house mecca, was the same as the one that drew the biggest crowds at the Block Orange, a 30-screen AMC theater in a sprawling Orange County shopping mall: a tiny, Spanish-language sleeper called Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna). A kind of Finding Nemo of border politics, Under the Same Moon follows a nine-year-old boy's travels from Mexico to the U.S. to reunite with his mother, an illegal immigrant who cleans houses in Los Angeles...
...best place to see this is America's biofuel mecca: Iowa. Last year fewer than 2% of U.S. gas stations offered ethanol, and the country produced 7 billion gal. (26.5 billion L) of biofuel, which cost taxpayers at least $8 billion in subsidies. But on Nov. 6, at a biodiesel plant in Newton, Iowa, Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled an eye-popping plan that would require all stations to offer ethanol by 2017 while mandating 60 billion gal. (227 billion L) by 2030. "This is the fuel for a much brighter future!" she declared. Barack Obama immediately criticized...