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...Mumbai-based firm growing at top speed. So Chandrasekaran is also venturing to locales Indian techies in the past rarely considered worth the cost of a plane ticket. He has already stopped in Beijing and Singapore, and early in 2010, he'll head to Montevideo, São Paulo, Mexico City and the Middle East. "You need to make sure that you're more focused on growth everywhere," he says...
...said, but a demand for fairness. "When President Clinton was in office, California got back 94 cents on the dollar from the Federal Government. Today, we only get 78 cents back. But in the meantime, Texas gets 94 cents, Pennsylvania gets $1.07," he said. "And guess what New Mexico gets? $2.03." Without the additional federal money, Schwarzenegger said, he will again propose the elimination of CalWorks, the state's welfare-to-work program, as well as in-home services for the disabled and elderly. (See why the U.S. can't afford to let California fail...
Over the past two decades Mexico City has emerged as a player in the international contemporary-art scene, with a clutch of world-class artists, cutting-edge galleries and deep-pocketed collectors - of which juice tycoon Eugenio Lopez is the most important. Located at his family's sprawling Jumex juice factory just outside the capital, Lopez's Colección Jumex is a priceless assemblage of works by blue-chip local and international artists ranging from Gabriel Orozco to Andy Warhol. It is unequaled in Latin America...
With important names like Daniel Guzmán, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Jorge Méndez Blake and Orozco taking center stage, the exhibition is decidedly, and understandably, Mexico-heavy. But by juxtaposing these talents with international contemporaries - from Jenny Holzer to Paul McCarthy, Kelley Walker to Jeff Koons - the Bass has "been able to bridge these creative cultures," enthuses executive director and chief curator Silvia Karman Cubina. The result, she says, is "a very exciting dialogue between past and present." See bassmuseum.org for more...
...about them." Indeed, Yemenis point out that the three most infamous al-Qaeda-linked figures from their country came from elsewhere: Abdulmutallab is Nigerian; Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric who may have inspired both Abdulmutallab and accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was born in New Mexico and studied at U.S. colleges; and John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, who grew up in San Francisco, was captured in Afghanistan and is now serving time in a U.S. prison. (See pictures of the privileged life of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...