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...India's businessmen are hoping he's right. If the country keeps pushing ahead with reform, the payoff could be enormous. If India's outsourcing industry keeps growing at its current rate, for instance, its revenues are projected to grow to $25 billion by 2008. But if India fails to improve its infrastructure soon, competitors like China could start to steal business from its technology and outsourcing companies. "We still have five years' lead," says Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys, a Bangalore-based software giant. "If in five years we've done nothing, there will be an issue." Perhaps...
...also found that Harvard students are more likely to be involved in an all-or-nothing relationship than pursue casual dating. Fox explained that the mentality of Harvard students, as continuously focused on future goals, leads them to shy away from casual dating because it has the most uncertain payoff in the long run and therefore is too risky an investment...
...provision of the bill prohibits the government from negotiating discounted drug prices, as insurance companies, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Canada and many other countries do. Such a pharma-friendly measure comes as little surprise, given the sway of the industry’s lobbyists in Washington, but the payoff to contributors comes at the expense of seniors, who will continue to be stuck with high prices, even with government support. More than six million seniors will also lose their Medicaid drug coverage and will face the prospect of being stuck with higher co-payments or losing access to certain...
...volunteers, is quite different from what it would have been otherwise. They are no longer just another retired bank executive, another doctor in Oklahoma, another lawyer in Nova Scotia. Instead they have developed a taste for adventure and sacrifice, adjusting to life with little money or Western comforts. The payoff is the chance to use skills honed over decades and see those skills directly improving the world--and their own lives...
...prescriptions may be saving lives, though. As the rate of their use on campus has gone up, overall reported U.S. college suicide rates, despite the cluster at N.Y.U., have fallen noticeably, from a total of 122 in 2000 to 80 in 2001. "It's the Prozac payoff," says Marano. That and the determined efforts of campus mental-health professionals to diagnose depression early, treat it aggressively and reassure students that the sunny college careers of yesteryear represent an ideal and not always a reality...