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...Perversely, the incredible economic growth is having an impact in other ways, driving up rates of rich-world diseases such as obesity and diabetes and encouraging high-end health services, some of which offer world-class care but remain far beyond the reach of the vast majority of Indians. It's these services - think of last year's surgery to save an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs - and the skill of India's world-class doctors that the country brags about when its marketers sell India as a medical-tourism destination and an emerging health-services...
...important focus," says Krishna Rao, who heads health economics and funding for the Public Health Foundation of India. The organization was set up in 2006 by the government, NGOs like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and private health providers to influence policy and research, and to set up world-class public-health schools around the country. The government has also promised more money for rural health through its ambitious National Rural Health Mission. The Congress Party, which leads India's coalition government, says it will increase public-health spending from the current 1% of India...
...Which, of course, was the point. Or part of it. A big business is at stake here, and, notwithstanding Google's desire for you to "select world-class art that really reflects your personality," as Google VP Marissa Mayer wrote on her blog yesterday morning, getting people to move from minimalist Google Classic to iGoogle is a key strategic goal for the company. (And if it's possible to get the word Google into that sentence anymore than I did, I'll customize your homepage myself...
Described as “the king of polls” and an “incandescent intellect” by the press, and boasting such clients as Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, and Bill Gates, Penn is the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a world-class public relations firm, and president of Penn, Schoen, and Berland Associates, a public opinion polling company he started while at Harvard. After helping both Bill and Hillary Clinton in their past campaigns, he served as chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign until his company’s work with the Colombian...
...November 2003, local officials hailed New Delhi's victory in the race to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games as an opportunity to modernize its infrastructure and showcase the Indian capital as a world-class city. But New Delhi's preparations for the games - which involve Britain and most of its former colonies - have been so tardy and poorly executed that diplomats here joke that workers will still be painting the lanes on the athletic track when the runners take their marks...