Hollywood is going great guns at both the U.S. domestic and worldwide box office. According to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) 2007 report, eleven movies grossed $200 million or more in the U.S. The eleven movies are Spider Man 3, Shrek The Third, Transformers, Pirates of the Carribean At World’s End, Harry Potter […]
U.S. teenage girls have a high rate of venereal disease a.k.a. sexually transmitted infections (STI). One in every four teenage girls in U.S. has at least one of the most common venereal diseases, according to a recent study conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Based on the study, the authors conservatively estimate that 3.2 million […]
A pretty Indian-American girl Shivani Sud won the top prize at the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition in the U.S. on Tuesday. As the grand prize winner, Shivani Sud gets a $100,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation. This is the first time that an Indian-American student has won the top prize, which is often […]
Tourists to India – Beware. You could lose your life, be molested, raped and attacked. And the Indian police will do little to help you or investigate the incident. India’s police will most likely deny the incident and attempt to cover it up. India’s tourism campaign is called Incredible India. But the campaign might more […]
We are currently reading Parag Khanna’s new book The Second World – Empires and Influence in The New Global Order, the talk of the town these days. Since we couldn’t wait to do a post on the book, we gave it something like the Washington read (flipping through the index to find what’s of interest). […]
We have yet to read Jennifer 8. Lee’s new book The Fortune Cookie Chroniclers: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food but we plan to pick it up soon. Meanwhile, here’s an excerpt from today’s New York Times review of The Fortune Cookie Chroniclers: Lee presents an intriguing idea in a chapter called “Open-Source Chinese Restaurants,†[…]