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Dale Carnegie Training--which teaches the self-improvement techniques in Carnegie's landmark 1936 book, How to Win Friends and Influence People--is one of several institutes that have opened shop in this high-tech hub to teach India's legions of ambitious IT graduates the finer points of life in the modern workplace. "I was overwhelmed when I moved to Bangalore last year. I saw all these people who looked so smart and spoke perfect English," says Pallavi Deshpande, 28. Her college in the central Indian city of Nagpur had given her a master's degree in computer science...
...break a technology career. "No matter where you're working in the IT industry, in three to four years' time, everyone reaches a uniform level of sensitivity and an ability to communicate," says C. Mahalingam, chief people officer at training firm Symphony Services. But the basic principles the classes teach can help many get their foot in the door. "Everyone picks up these skills along the way," says Gerald Santiago, a Dale Carnegie student from Bangalore. "If you want to join the ranks, you must learn these...
...celebration outlives its usefulness. Back in 1970, there was lead in our paint, smog in our cities and poison in our pesticides; Ohio's Cuyahoga River was so polluted it caught fire the year before. So when Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson called for a day of protest and teach-ins, 20 million people took part. In San Francisco, activists dumped oil in the reflecting pool at Standard Oil's headquarters; in Florida, college students put a Chevrolet on trial for poisoning the air, pronounced it guilty and sentenced it to death by sledgehammer. The Daughters of the American Revolution called...
...championship for the Empowerment Fund raised over $200,000 last year, according to Oneida Nation spokesman Mark F. Emery. The Oneida Nation has also established a $3 million dollar endowment in 2003 to fund a professorship at the Law School for visiting scholars to teach American Indian...
...That's the ultimate aim of yoga - kaivalya. It's not just about a perfectly sculpted body," he says. He also says Jois's fees - $700 for a month-long course, three to four times the amounts charged by other schools - are excessive, "especially as he doesn't even teach himself any more. His daughter and grandson take the classes...