Barack Obama, You were elected to bring some order into the financial system, punish the scumbags that got us into this mess, take steps to provide healthcare for all American citizens (not just for you, your brats and your cronies on Capitol Hill but for the 75 million uninsured/underinsured Americans as well) and right the […]
It must be nice to be old and rich. Just look at 64-year-old billionaire and Silicon Valley legend Jim Clark, co-founder of Netscape, Silicon Graphics, Healtheon et al. The lucky sob married 28-year-old Australian beauty and Sports Illustrated/Victoria’s Secret model Kristy Hinze on the British Virgin Island of Virgin Gorda on Saturday. Way to go, […]
Loss-making Reader’s Digest Association Inc has signed a cost-cutting oriented $350 million, seven-year IT outsourcing agreement with India’s HCL Technologies. The agreement is supposed to cover Reader’s Digest Association’s entire IT landscape, spanning the gamut from infrastructure to applications. IT Support from Coolie Nations From low wage nations like India and Poland, HCL Technologies will […]
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the high child malnutrition rates in India. Here’s an excerpt from the NYT story: [E]ven after a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse here than in many sub-Saharan African countries, and they stand out as a paradox in a proud democracy. China, […]
Food worker at Shiva Natarajan’s Dhaba Indian restaurant does not wash hands thoroughly after visiting the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking, preparing raw foods or otherwise contaminating hands, says the New York City Health Department after inspecting this Indian restaurant on March 2, 2009. The NYC Health Dept. inspection report also noted that Dhaba located on […]
A lot of Government doctors in India are corrupt and often even fail to report for duty. In remote Indian villages, we’ve seen Indian doctors extorting bribes from very poor villagers. Pigs. But bribery in the healthcare delivery system is not restricted to India. We just read a heartrending story of corruption in the Romanian healthcare […]