Number of words: 1,490 Most 60-year-old men don’t go food shopping every day, but Tommy Mule does. Mule (pronounced Moo-LAY), a morning radio host in Rochester, N.Y., pops into his local grocery store daily for some Vietnamese spring rolls, a rotisserie chicken, or just a coffee and some chitchat with Jimmy, his pal in the … Read more
Number of words: 711 Kolkata’s media, run by and addressed to, bhadralok consumers, has its pyjama strings in knots. Will a saffron wave sweep Bengal? Or will Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) dominate Lok Sabha seats, like the Left Front did before her? Bengal has 42 Lok Sabha constituencies, the third highest in India after … Read more
Number of words: 1,486 83% of India’s vehicles are two-wheelers and three-wheelers (including small goods vehicles) and 13% are economy cars, costing less than Rs. 1 million, thus constituting over 95% of India’s vehicles. These vehicles tend to be small and affordable. As these vehicles are electrified, the affordability requirements will keep the batteries small, … Read more
Number of words: 4,106 In statistical terms, this is the golden age of American higher education. More than 1 in 3 Americans has at least a bachelor’s degree, the most ever. Almost 70 percent of high school seniors graduating this spring will go to college in the fall, compared with about half during the mid-1970s. … Read more
Number of words: 542 Going to the bathroom is one thing that ties all of humanity together—even when we’re at cruising altitude. But toilets on planes are often cramp and very loud. While space remains an everlasting issue when traveling 30,000 feet in the air, sound is something science is trying to tackle. After two … Read more
Number of words: 1,924 Imagine you’re in a bar, or a club, and you start talking, and after a while, the question comes up, “So, what do you do for work?” And since you think your job is interesting, you say, “I’m a mathematician.” And inevitably, during that conversation one of these two phrases come … Read more
Number of words: 2,748 Thank you for being here. And I say “thank you for being here” because I was silent for 17 years. And the first words that I spoke were in Washington, D.C., on the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. And my family and friends had gathered there to hear me speak. And … Read more
Number of words: 959 Do you ask questions that really matter? Conversations between colleagues are an integral part of our offices, and they define much of our workplace experience. In India, as in some other parts of the world, we love speaking. But there is one key aspect of conversations that many of us have … Read more
Number of words: 2.175 Boeing faced an unthinkable defection in the spring of 2011. American Airlines, an exclusive Boeing customer for more than a decade, was ready to place an order for hundreds of new, fuel-efficient jets from the world’s other major aircraft manufacturer, Airbus. The chief executive of American called Boeing’s leader, W. James … Read more
Number of words: 751 It can be tough to recall that Intel Corp. invented the memory-chip business half a century ago. It gave up on the field for more than a decade, starting in the 1980s, and has struggled since returning in 2006 to match the success of Samsung Electronics Co. in the historically low-margin … Read more
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