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...David Frost, which was later broadcast on India's state-owned television network. I was living in India at the time and saw how the show changed people's lives. Overnight, Guinness mania swept the country as ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined 6.15 meters. He told me he wanted...
Dawn is breaking over a crowded neighborhood in Madras, and the murmur of early-morning prayers is dispersing the stillness of the night. A solitary light shines from the ground floor of a three-story house. Inside, a lone, curly-haired figure sits at a vast mixing desk, fingers skating across the controls. A.R. Rahman's work is almost finished. For as long as he can remember, Asia's most successful composer has slept through the noise of the day and composed in the silence of the night. And the past eight hours have been especially productive: Rahman has completed...
...visiting students overwhelmed by a vast array of Office of Undergraduate Admissions-sponsored activities, parties like the Leverett ’80s dance, the Chinese Students Association’s Fusion dance and “Get Yo’ Jollies: Part Trois” were a chance to check Harvard’s life beyond the stacks of Widener...
...really rather have all the benefits I hear people talking about, since I work pretty much full time here," Borayev says. "I'll keep working at this, and hopefully they might take me as a full-time employee. But I don't know if it will ever happen." The vast majority of temporary employees work close to 40 hours a week, as Borayev does. But as long as they stay under that limit, they are not considered full time and therefore not entitled to federally mandated overtime pay or health benefits available to permanent workers...
...lack of knowledge of the danger, as EPA claims? Or industry influence, as environmentalists charge? Whatever the reason, federal attorneys settled with mining companies for pennies on the dollar. Now, after fruitless efforts to contain 28 billion gal. of acid mine water, contamination is spreading across a vast watershed. And although the EPA trucked out toxic dirt from about 2,000 homes and schools, Tar Creek's children still show elevated lead levels at six times the national average...