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...technician prepping for his GMAT exam. "If you're talking of business today, India is the place to be," he says, smiling. "But the challenge for the country is to take everyone along." And with that, Iyer picks up his duffel bag and helmet, and sets out on his scooter for Badarpur, a village on the outskirts of New Delhi where he gives free math and science lessons to secondary school students from economically challenged families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Grass-Roots Teachers | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...company's promise to launch the Nano by the end of this year. Tata has staked his reputation on successfully producing and selling the fabled world's cheapest car, which will sell for about $2,300 - a price low enough to turn India's millions of motorcycle and scooter drivers into car owners. "This is an iconic project," says Abdul Majeed, who follows the Indian auto industry as a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Chennai. "The whole world is watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People vs. the People's Car | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...best player on some middling Yankee teams of the late '60s and early '70s. In 1983, George Steinbrenner gave Murcer a full 30 minutes to decide if he wanted to end his playing days to move into the booth. He wisely accepted, teaming with the late Phil (Scooter) Rizzuto to form one of the best buddy acts in broadcasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobby Murcer | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

Murcer fought through brain cancer to call games last season. "Though I've become something of a weeper," he wrote in his autobiography, Yankee for Life, released this spring, "I find myself laughing as much as I ever did, if not more." Somewhere he and Scooter are keeping them hootin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobby Murcer | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...everything from "Bonnie and Clyde" to "Prison Break." In contrast, Mr. Israel’s flight is about as prosaic as possible. Even his getaway car, a white camping vehicle, smacks of the mundane. (And in case the Feds ever apprehend his RV, Israel has apparently attached a blue scooter on the back to facilitate a dorky-looking getaway...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Take the Money and Run | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

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