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...know that India has a lot to offer me on my return: a challenging work environment, a busy social life and, above all, a sense of freedom. I agree that life in India also involves many struggles. We have serious religious, economic and political conflicts. It is a roller-coaster ride, but that is what makes life in India highly interesting. Rushdie talked about the corrupt politics, the poverty, the strife and the poor attitude of the people. But India has also been responsible for many great minds, philosophers, physicists and artists. India's 50th anniversary of independence...
...simple vision: mobile electronics. The first product, a car radio, gave the company its name, Motorola. For 70 years, from vacuum tubes to microchips, the firm has pursued that mission. And not without risk. For much of the past decade the company has been on a roller coaster, boosted by cell-phones, slammed by radios, skewered by foreign competition. But last week the firm announced earnings high enough to convince Wall Street that Motorola is back...
Mapped here under the big bold sky is America's Geography of Conspiracy. If Disney were to create a theme park celebrating American paranoia (Suspicionland U.S.A.), it might want to base the design on central Nevada. Tumbleweed stretches of empty highway roller-coaster over mountain ranges and down into salt flats, past ghost towns, federal prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides...
...tall statue of Mao Zedong. Here Mao lives, a hero still. In his long shadow, fan-twirling line dancers stomp through a traditional peasant rite. Doctors in grubby white coats offer herbal medicines, acupuncture or blood-pressure tests. Vendors proffer savory kabobs or key chains. Children rent old-fashioned roller skates for a few yuan, while their elder brothers play badminton without any nets. The throng does not disperse until the blazing phosphorus lights dim near midnight...
...roller coaster ride continued from there. Harvard had trouble mustering up any offense and the squad dropped six of its next seven games, all of them at home...