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...Ross Young, executive director of the Water Services Association of Australia, which represents 29 major urban water providers, doubts recycling water for drinking would be more cost effective for Australia's major cities than desalination. With "no demonstrated community support" for drinking recycled water, he believes desalination will remain the preferred option for coastal populations. National guidelines for recycled water are now being drawn up; Young says he would want it to be passed through a natural filter such as wetlands after treatment. "Even though the scientists say it's safe, treatment plants don't always operate within specifications. That...
...something that can be read in the color of one's skin or in the cut of one's clothes. Caste is written in a far more nuanced language of family name, livelihood, origin and identity politics; yet it is an issue that has managed to polarize the nation. Urban Indians, increasingly categorized by wealth, say that caste has no bearing on the kind of jobs they can get, yet classified matrimonial ads often list caste as a principal criterion in the search for a suitable spouse. In the countryside, caste defines not just social status and employment opportunities...
...could answer that question, I would definitely add a bestseller to my resume. In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Leo Tolstoy equated modern urban life to “the example of a stone falling downwards with increasing velocity.” Bureaucratic jobs, endless soirées and “proper” marriages to fill our social roles, applicable to 19th century Moscow or Cambridge tomorrow. A tragic mirage that entails hypocrisy, emptiness, and cocktail parties...
...which, by choice or not, had been excluded from it. The global supply of manufacturing labor more than doubled virtually overnight. In the context of largely open world markets, this has meant continuing downward pressure on global production costs. With upward of a billion people set to enter the urban labor markets of China, India, Brazil and Indonesia over the next 20 years, this pressure will only intensify. Should you doubt that, ask any labor union how much luck they have had lately in negotiating higher wages. More immediate forces are also at work to keep prices from surging. Despite...
While discussing the work done by UNIFEM, a human-rights organization, NICOLE KIDMAN let slip to PEOPLE magazine that country singer KEITH URBAN, her boyfriend and date for the charity's 30th-anniversary gala, was "actually my fianc." She said, "I wouldn't be bringing my boyfriend." ('Cause that would be tacky.) Urban's publicist later confirmed the betrothal. The affianced, both Aussies and both 38, met in January 2005 at a dinner given by the Australian government but weren't spotted together in public until July. Since then, they've been seen strolling quietly hand in hand...