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...countries such as India for the same reasons that Western cities with great mass transit are bumper-to-bumper anyway: people buy cars for convenience and status. Kant of Tata Motors says he's sick of going to parties in India and in the West and listening to "these rich people ask about congestion and pollution and global warming. I ask them, 'Sir, will you stop using your car and start taking the bus?' People should be thanking us our cars are small. Let all those SUVs in America be replaced by the one-lakh car if people...
...Angi felt something was missing in her daughter's life. Annalisee, whose three siblings are grown, didn't have a rich social network of other kids. By 13, she had moved beyond her mother's ability to meaningfully teach her. The family talked about sending her to college, but everyone was hesitant. Annalisee needed to mature socially. By the time I met her in February, she had been having trouble getting along with others. "People are, I must admit it, a lot of times intimidated by me," she told me; modesty isn't among her many talents. She described herself...
...looking for summer jobs. Jock-turned-stage-star Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) scores a sweet gig as an assistant golf pro at the Lava Springs country club and gets jobs for his pals and girlfriend Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens). The catch: his job has been arranged by spoiled rich girl and theater brat Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale), who considers Troy her rightful boyfriend. She connives for him to duet with her in a talent show--and for Gabriella to be left out. For middle-class Troy, there are connections and a basketball scholarship--if he plays along...
...Such complaints are unlikely to mean much in a Russia growing prosperous off its abundant oil and natural gas reserves. But while Moscow puts post-Soviet poverty behind it, the residents of Sakhalin are experiencing the energy boom in a manner familiar to many citizens of oil-rich nations. "I'm a native," says Vasili Plotnikov, a pensioner who owns a tiny country shack just a few miles from the massive LNG terminal. "I don't see any plus. I only see negatives." Maybe Chekhov's hell wasn't so bad, after...
...despite ethical qualms - which have prompted some chefs to renounce it altogether - rich Londoners can't seem to get enough of the black stuff. Stuart Lyall, head chef of the Fishmarket restaurant sums up its status allure: "Demand for beluga, our top seller, is still very high... people have not been deterred from ordering it. It's still a very decadent choice...