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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...designed to bring some middle-class comforts to the masses, the homes are geared for the hundreds of millions of Indians making less than $5,000 a year who are unable to afford decent dwellings. "We have realized that there is an opportunity at the bottom of the pyramid," says Brotin Banerjee, CEO of Tata Housing Development. (Read "India's Top Automaker, Tata Motors, Hits a Rough Patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From India: First Nano's $2,000 Car. Now the $7,800 Nano Home | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

Adams may not have explicitly foretold the fall of Lehman's or the exposure of Bernard Madoff, but here's a prediction from her 2006 book Essential Astrology for Women: "Corporations will crumble and fall ... Anything with a big pyramid structure and massive skyscraper towers is vulnerable." Dumb luck or precognition? Let's look at her current take on politics. Joe Biden's turn as Veep is ill-starred, says Adams, whereas "Hillary Clinton is set to go up and up. Her chart on the day Obama won was more powerful than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anxious London Flocks to Psychics | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...break a sweat. John Taylor, a PE teacher in Ohio, says he now integrates cup-stacking into more than half his classes, often as an incentive to get kids to participate in more-rigorous activities. "We have a relay where students will run 10 yards, then stack a pyramid," he says. "It makes exercise more fun for them." Can an Olympic debut be far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stacktacular: The Speedy World of Sport Stacking | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...legs on the side straps. The unicycle duo (strong Yuri Shavro, supple Diana Aleschenko) perform an apache while wheeling around the stage; then she doughnuts herself around his head. Zhang Gongli stacks four, six, eight chairs, one balanced on another, and does a handstand on the top of the pyramid. Anthony Gatto, a showman with a plethora of panache, tosses and catches seven balls, seven hoops, an alley's worth of bowling pins; he's simply the best juggler ever. And in an act already used to sensational effect in Ka, Jimmy Ibarra and Carlos Marin Loaiza run inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cirque du Soleil's Clowning Kooza | 4/25/2009 | See Source »

...kept Harvard from reaching the finals, the Crimson got another shot to show what it could do in the “challenger’s cup.” Demonstrating its newfound perspective, Harvard nailed its routine the second time around, scoring 9.8 out of 11 in the pyramid section...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield | Title: Cheerleaders Compete at Nationals for the First Time | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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