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...Drishtee has been expanding demand by selling insurance policies, subscriptions to websites that match would-be grooms with prospective brides, classified advertising, an online health-advice service and even passport photos printed as you wait. The company has 1,019 kiosks in nine states and is aiming to open an additional 3,000 in the next two years. Each kiosk is run by an entrepreneur from the village, typically a man in his mid-20s. The cost of a kiosk package--computer, digital camera, Internet connection over a cell-phone line, and printer--is $1,500, which is paid back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SATYAN MISHRA: Linking To Rural India | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...spot fake IDs, according to employee Mike Jones. He said workers there were required to ask anyone who looks younger than 30 for identification—and two forms of it if the customer doesn’t show a Mass. identification card or a U.S. passport...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City To Increase Alcohol Oversight | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...greatest university end up in this country’s greatest metropolis?And yet, I think I’ll pass. You see, I’m not like most Harvard students—I’m one of the roughly 10 percent of undergraduates with a foreign passport. For us internationals, post-graduation planning is a delicate subject—should I stay or should I go?For all its talk of internationalism and global education, Harvard remains an expensive re-education camp, proselytizing the American dream. After three years here, if someone asked me if New York...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just Say ‘No’ to NYC? | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...case, indefinitely holding an individual—citizen or not—in a jail cell away from his family, without even the hope of legal recourse, is no more justifiable simply because he lacks a U.S. passport. Ultimately, the right of habeas corpus should be inviolable for the same reason torture is unthinkable—because we pride ourselves on living in a society that treats all people humanely, even when it might be expedient to do otherwise...

Author: By Justin S. Becker and Elise Liu | Title: Hiding Away Habeas | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

...talented people around the world, the Green Card is a passport to a new life, an iconic article of identity for anyone aspiring to live and work in the United States. Its impact has been spotted by the European Commission, which this week announced plans to copy it - in blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Green Light for Europe's Blue Card | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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