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...young people. At least 8 million children remain out of school in India, many kept to work at home or in the fields. India's shocking 64% literacy rate lags far behind that of its neighbor China and bodes ill for its long-term development. New Delhi plans to pump $38 billion into the education sector over the next five years, but the government has much to deliver as it tries to reconcile India's vast social inequities. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, of modest origins himself, knows the struggle is worth it: "I am what I am because of education...
...defense purposes." The power was out, and moments before the convoy pulled out, the earth shook with yet another strong aftershock, with its epicenter at Valparaiso. As the convoy left, Bieniawski took out his phone, called up the sound track for the Pirates of the Caribbean movie - his favorite "pump up" track - and hit play. "It's time to raise our game, fellas," he said...
...Minister François Fillon to cull the carbon tax rather than apply it as planned. The reason: the reform was one conservative voters and legislators alike have derided as leftist. At its heart was a $23 tax on each ton of carbon produced - mainly applied at the gas pump and via heating bills. (See TIME's coverage of the World Energy Technologies Summit...
...fixed amount of money. An education is an investment and so is a high school graduate. If we take a high school graduate, the money we put into his education, and the school he attends all as investment vehicles, then scholarships should be turned into college savings plans that pump an initial volume of funds into a portfolio that is guaranteed to bring a positive return...
There are other challenges too. Deere has had to pump billions of dollars into engine technology to meet changing U.S. emission standards coming in 2011 and again in 2014 - costs it will pass on to customers through higher prices. "The 2011 product will go up several thousand dollars in price," Longbow Research analyst Eli Lustgarten says. "So when prices go up again just three years later, even the most price-inelastic customers will feel...