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...Depression. If Indians and Chinese can earn $5,000 a year and salt away $1,500, Americans earning $40,000 a year should be able to save at least that much each year-but they don't. Sometimes it is easier to put things in perspective from the other side of the world. "It is not the best feeling in the world to know that I'm taking away someone's job," said Sheelan Chawathe, who answers the phone for Delta Air Lines in Mumbai. He offered some advice: "Stop trading in your car every year and a half...
...fastest-growing economy (after China). Nguyen Thu Phuong, 18, studied for more than a year for the exams, and was poring over a few last-minute math equations on a bench shortly before testing began. Her mother, anxiously fanning the girl as she studied, once fought for the communist side in the Vietnam War and recently retired from a state-run factory, but she dreams of her daughter working in banking or finance. "It's not like the old days," Phuong's mother says. "If children don't have a university degree, it's really difficult to get a good...
...most vivacious movie musical in ages, and Travolta is a big reason why. Encased in a foam-rubber fat suit, and channeling Blanche DuBois and Miss Piggy, he reveals his feminine side in a way that could have made Stanwyck smile in appreciation. And though Edna hasn't quite the agility of Saturday Night Fever's Tony Manero, Travolta is still a dancing champ at any weight...
Bret Sayre, a hedge fund accountant, was walking home with a colleague when he saw the fog. "We looked up and saw about 150 people running at us, followed by about 10 seconds of confusion. And all of a sudden, smoke started to billow out of a side street a couple blocks up," he says. "That was when we joined in the crowd...
...relegated to the camps when her brothers were abducted, thinks it is of "no use" to punish the rebels, many of whom are relatives of the displaced civilians. Her neighbors say that punishment will only worsen the situation when the LRA disbands and its members return to live side-by-side with their victims...