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...have been concentrating on the ice dancing in Vancouver. Or you're one of those people who can't tell a silly mid-off from a backward square-leg. So it's possible you missed the breaking of one of sport's long-standing barriers: India's Sachin Tendulkar scored a double-hundred against South Africa in a one-day match on Feb. 24, 2010. For the 1.5 billion people who follow cricket - making it, by some reckoning, the world's second most popular sport after soccer - it was a moment to match Roger Bannister's 4-min. mile...
...Apple is failing at moving to the Web/cloud," says Sachin Agarwal, who spent six years at Apple before founding Posterous, a Web service that simplifies and streamlines tasks such as blogging and posting to social networks. "MobileMe [Apple's service that syncs e-mail, contacts and calendar events] has not succeeded here, and they are in a vicious cycle, since that makes it hard to recruit smart Web developers...
...listen to everything with an open mind," BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah told the Hindustan Times. But the pressure for change is already building. A non-scientific Times of India survey found that 87% of readers think Dravid should be removed as captain, while 92% feel one-time star batsman Sachin Tendulkar should be axed altogether. To the question "Is something fundamentally wrong with the way BCCI runs cricket in India?" 96% of respondents said yes. Eight out of ten people also feel cricket gets "too much importance in India...
...Your list of Asian Heroes was interesting, especially the article about Sachin Tendulkar. In a cricket-crazy nation like India, where people play everywhere, from public roads to paddy fields, it's no wonder he is a hero. Sunil P. Ipe Kottayam, India...
...whole process—from the paperwork through the information packet to the cheek swab testing—would take potential donors 20 minutes. The initiative ran at four of Harvard’s graduate schools the week prior to Thanksgiving and recruited 180 donors, according to HBMI founder Sachin H. Jain ’02, who is now studying at Harvard’s Medical and Business Schools. “In years past we have tried to combine [the bone marrow drive] with the blood drives. This year we have changed it,” said Natalia Martinez...