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...world into vampires. The upside: immortality. Then again, with the vast majority of the population now bloodsuckers, there's a significant shortage of bloodsuckees: the few remaining humans, most of whom are imprisoned and "farmed" in a vast, multi-tiered, Matrix-like abattoir where their blood is systematically drained. Still, it's not enough. As I learn from a fellow reviewer of Daybreakers, Peter Hartlaub in the San Francisco Chronicle, "the average human body holds approximately 1.5 gallons of blood." That's less than 11 bottles of beer, which your average jock vampire could quaff during a single Super Bowl...
...Complicated had a hefty $85 million budget; Leap Year cost just $19 million to make; Youth in Revolt, $18 million. All three will have to scramble to break even. In the bang-for-a-buck category, the phenomenon remains The Blind Side, the sports-inspirational drama starring Sandra Bullock. Still in the top seven after eight weeks of release, the movie has now earned $219.2 million on a $29 million budget. It's now the all-time top grosser in the based-on-a-true-story genre (unless you count The Passion of the Christ). At the moment it trails...
...Still, there are some major differences between the FCIC and the 9/11 commission. The FCIC does not have to deal with a President and an Administration that was in power when the event happened, though the Obama team will probably try to deter any criticism of how the current President responded to the crisis. Another major difference is that most of the major actors in the financial crisis are U.S. citizens, making it easier for the FCIC to subpoena, which Angelides has said he will do, to question the people at the heart of the crisis...
...they seek to professionalize their operations. A study by NASSCOM and consulting firm McKinsey figured that by 2020 about a quarter of potential IT- and business-services revenues for outsourcing firms will be generated in the so-called BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Although the U.S. still accounts for 60% of the export revenue of India's IT sector, emerging markets are growing faster. NASSCOM data show that the Indian IT sector's revenues from the Asia-Pacific region grew by a compounded 42% a year between the 2004 and 2008 fiscal years compared with...
...firms also have to work extra hard to woo business from emerging-market companies still unaccustomed to the concept of outsourcing. Unlike CEOs in the U.S., executives in the developing world prefer to manage their technology in-house. The fact that Indian companies are relative unknowns in many parts of the world hasn't helped. Castelli says that one problem marketing the TCS brand name in Latin America has been that tata in Spanish means "daddy." "Nobody knew if we were talking about our father or the company owner or what," Castelli says. "It took time to explain that Tata...