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...plane, which encourages passengers to mingle (in their own class, of course). In the front of the upper deck, in the business section, there's even an art gallery of sorts: flat-screen TVs displaying digital previews of the New York and Paris cultural scenes, a somewhat lavish use of space...
...just a question of economics - of getting the macroeconomic fundamentals right and letting market forces and the private sector do the rest. It depends also on having effective, clean governments, at every level down to the village, which do not waste economic largesse or appropriate it for the use of their own politicians and officials. That has long been understood in true exemplars of development like Singapore. It now needs to be adopted, seriously and comprehensively, by India. If that happens, India really will be the shining success story that its leaders so manifestly believe it is going...
...that you can't do six things at once as some co-workers seem to? Don't. We're not made to multitask, says consultant Rock, who interviewed 30 leading neuroscientists to explore how the brain functions at work. "The reality is you are not doing two tasks that use the stage at any one time," he writes. "You are switching attention between tasks." For optimal use of brain cells, do one thing at a time, no matter how long your to-do list is. Otherwise, he says, "if you do multiple conscious tasks at once, you will experience...
Days after a government advisory panel rolled back its recommendations on mammography screening for breast cancer, another influential group issued revised guidelines on the use of Pap smears to detect cervical cancer, recommending that young women delay getting their first test...
...Pakistan's generals are concerned by what they perceive as growing Indian influence in Afghanistan, through the Karzai government and massive development projects. They also accuse India of using Afghanistan as a base from which to wage a proxy war on Pakistan. Its priorities make the Pakistan army unlikely to turn its fire on the Haqqani and Hafiz Gul Bahadur networks, as Obama is demanding. Instead, the army has revived a nonaggression pact with Bahadur and with Maulvi Nazir - both of which use Pakistani soil as a base from which to wage war on NATO forces in Afghanistan. Pakistan...