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...inequality, corruption and crime--converge in Bombay. Although India boasts more billionaires than China, 81% of its population lives on $2 a day or less, compared with 47% of Chinese, according to the 2005 U.N. Population Reference Bureau Report. That class divide is starkest in cities like Bombay, where million-dollar apartments overlook million-population slums. For all its glitz, Bombay remains a temple to inefficiency. In 2003 it had one bus for every 1,300 people, two public parking spots for every 1,000 cars, 17 public toilets for every million people and one civic hospital for 7.2 million...
...millions across France to make it out of the projects, just as he has successfully done. "I've seen that there are lots of preconceived ideas and prejudices out there to stop you from doing what you want if you give in to them," Koné says. "Perhaps my strength is that I don't accept those limits." Airness's founder insists there'd be a lot more chances to go around if rigid French attitudes could limber up in U.S. style. "In America, if a 15-year-old kid from the Bronx has a million-dollar idea, there...
...Ford Foundation donated over $4 million, mostly to accommodate rising faculty salaries.Harvard received more than $3.75 million during the first quarter of fiscal year 1955-56 and had received half a million dollars more during the same portion of the previous year. Fundraising success continued the following year, with the University taking in over $3 million in the first quarter of 1956. More than $300,000 of that money was earmarked for financial aid.In the second quarter of fiscal year 1956, the University received more than $5.5 million in donations, mostly through a campaign to raise money for the Harvard...
...sales pitch with a lower Manhattan store owner. "I'm knocking myself out trying to get a five-case order of beer, and this guy is taking 100 iced teas," Vultaggio says. "What am I doin'? I said, I gotta go into the tea business." That was his million-dollar focus group. "Yeah, I was focusing," he says. "Wow, that...
...Cambridge City Council voted at its meeting last night to appropriate a $1.3 million-dollar gift from Harvard for the Harvard Square Enhancement Project. The city’s project, which faced funding difficulties, aims to make the Square more pedestrian-friendly. Harvard’s gift will help fund the installation of a walk signal by Johnston Gate and sidewalk and street enhancements by the Lampoon castle and on Palmer, Winthrop, and JFK Streets. Councillor Henrietta Davis joked that she was happy to praise Harvard for a change. “This is a really important pedestrian project...