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Anupam Poddar's new building looks like any other commercial edifice rising into the skyline of Gurgaon, a New Delhi suburb that has become synonymous with India's new economy. But inside, it's a different world. Instead of containing the cubicles, boardroom tables and ambitious young professionals that fill the neighboring high-rises, this one is crammed with contemporary Indian...
Asha's day starts at 8 a.m., when she wakes up and makes breakfast for the family she lives with as a nanny in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi. She takes the kids down to play, feeds them, bathes them and puts up with their tantrums. Asha is around 14 years old - a few years older than the children she minds. Neha, 12, works as a daily maid for a family in New Delhi. her day starts in the kitchen, where she struggles over the high sink every morning to wash the breakfast dishes. Like Asha, Neha has never...
...conventional one, but, as a self-described "old soul," Stanton says she was propelled early on by a search for spiritual nourishment, which led her far beyond her Pentecostal roots. She was attracted initially to Eastern religions and Evangelicalism, until her family moved to a predominantly Jewish suburb of Cleveland. Curious about the mezuzahs in the doorways of neighboring homes - along with other unfamiliar Jewish customs - Stanton turned for guidance to a Catholic uncle who occasionally worshipped at a local temple...
...native of Merriam, Kans., a Kansas City suburb...
...doctor was greeting church members at the sanctuary door, a middle-aged white male fired a single, fatal shot with a handgun. Three hours later police took a suspect into custody; they had a tag number on a fleeing powder-blue Ford Taurus registered in Merriam, Kans., a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., and were waiting on Interstate 35 near Kansas City. The 51-year-old suspect got out of his car with his hands up, police said...