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Take a government renowned for red tape and an infrastructure famous for inefficiency. Add to those a business culture struggling to escape its predigital mom-and-pop era--and you have a formula that is hardly likely to appeal to a tough-minded American venture capitalist at the top of his game. But there was another side to the equation that led Norman Prouty to head for India three years ago. By his calculation, 40% of all successful high-tech stock IPOs in Silicon Valley were floated by Indian entrepreneurs. Why not go to the source of all that talent...
Among them are new forms of storytelling. Blindspot by Darcy Steinke is a multimedia tale about a nervous young mom taking care of her baby one night while she waits for her philandering husband to come home. As the story unfolds, you can hear her clock strike midnight, read meandering asides about her paranoid fears of an intruder and see the floor plan of her apartment slowly revealed onscreen. More ambitious narratives, such as Grammatron by Mark Amerika, which tackles everything from Cabala to virtual sex, come across as pretentious, thanks to lines like, "I ask of writing what...
...middle school science fair. Backboards and beakers cluttered our kitchen tables, while mom nagged us for not starting the project sooner. For some, the middle school science fair was only the beginning of a bright and promising career in the sciences. For Dennis J. Mak '03, the middle school science fair framed him as a prime suspect in the search for the Unabomber...
Because of incidents like that, lots of black parents won't let their kids drive flashy cars--even Mom's or Dad's--which can attract unwanted police attention. Other parents have given an emphatic thumbs-down to cell phones. Why? A police officer might mistake it for a weapon in the hands of a young African-American male, just as the cops say they mistook Diallo's wallet for a gun. Other parents restrict their kids' clothing. New York City police detective Clifton Hollingsworth won't let his sons wear hip street fashions. No backward baseball caps or pants...
MOTHER LOAD When Mom's blue, the kids feel it. And psychologists who studied 85 families have discovered another fascinating consequence of a mother's mild-to-severe depression: daughters may go into puberty early. That also seems to happen when an unrelated male, like a stepfather, joins the family. No one knows why, but it's thought that stress hormones and other chemicals play a role...