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...headline growth numbers are just the start. It is the sheer ambition of India's government that takes the breath away. At the World Economic Forum meeting, Kamal Nath, the Road Transport and Highways Minister, outlined a 12,500-mile (20,000 km) highway-construction program that will require India to build 121/2 miles (20 km) of new roads a day - and that is only a part of a gobsmacking infrastructure program that will include more power generation, more air- and seaports, more irrigation projects. Singh stressed the importance of nationwide improvement in education and health, which will also involve...
...think it was perhaps not the most ideal time to start it just because of Harvard-Yale," he said. "I have no question it will pick...
...effective financial regulation, even for something as minor and clearly exploitative as overdraft protection services. It doesn’t make you optimistic about ever setting good rules on credit cards, whose effect on our society is far more pernicious. Credit-card regulation passed last spring was a good start but ultimately does little more than limit banks’ ability to market credit cards to students and require them to warn you before they do something like raise your interest rates from 19 to 30 percent in the space of one month, even if you haven?...
...registration part where they're requesting classes. That's their job." She's come to appreciate the please-back-off vibe she's encountered. "I hope that we're getting away from the helicopter parenting," Meyer says. "Our philosophy is 'Give 'em the morals, give 'em the right start, but you've got to let them go.' They deserve to live their own lives." (See the 10 best iPhone apps for dads...
...have yet to commit to voting with Reid on the motion to proceed, the majority leader is "reasonably confident" that they will be with him when the time comes, says spokesman Jim Manley. "The whole goal right now is simply to get on the bill, and then we'll start some old-fashioned legislating." More questionable is whether Reid can muster 60 votes several weeks from now, when he presses to end debate and move to final passage...