'Untouchables' left behind in booming nation
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DALLIPUR, India -- The hip young Indians working inside this country's multinational call centers have one thing in common: Almost all hail from India's upper and middle castes, elites in this highly stratified society.
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Jim Pinder lost his job to India before most people had ever heard of ''offshoring.&quot;
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Those left out of India's rapid economic boom are feuding over entitlements under the country's overburdened affirmative action system
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Once a byword for poverty and  post-communist racketeering, Poland's second largest city of  Lodz was a place people wanted to escape. Today some are moving  back, drawn by foreign investment and falling unemployment.
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Economic growth is booming in countries like India and China where American popular culture does not dominate.
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SKULL VALLEY, Utah  - As some U.S. Indian tribes   have grown rich in recent years through casinos, others far   from population centers have struggled to overcome a historical   legacy of poverty.
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Todayâs titans often see themselves as pillars of a new age of prosperity, one in which their successes and their philanthropy have made government less important.
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The flashy documentary âMr. Untouchableâ looks at the life of Nicky Barnes, once one of the most powerful drug dealers in Harlem.
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In once-booming areas, now hard hit by housing crisis, stimulus plan could be too little, too late.
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Texas as a whole is booming, but across the stateâs outermost exurbs, formed by waves of new housing, building has ground almost to a halt.
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DAUD NAGAR, India  - An hour's drive from the palatial headquarters of India's "untouchables" leader, her talk of eight-lane highways and birthday gifts for the poor had yet to filter to villagers pinning their hopes more on rain gods.
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AHMADABAD, India -- Past the leafy Hindu neighborhoods of high-rises, children's amusement parks and glitzy shopping malls sprawls one of Asia's largest Muslim ghettos. It's a maze of half a million people, with rutted, unpaved roads, barefoot children flying kites amid smoldering garbage, and an...
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If you doubt that the derelict shantytowns of Tijuana, Mexico, could work as a template for redevelopment in a quaint, upscale town in the Hudson River Valley, youâre probably underestimating Teddy Cruz.
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Gamers stuck in the United States have had little chance of going pro. Until now. By Bruce Gain.
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While it is true that many Americans have moved into the ranks of being considered millionaires, the lower-income portion of the country has been taking a worse beating than boxer Roy Jones Jr.
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The United States is the richest nation on Earth, the world&#39;s biggest beneficiary of the global economy. But will it last? Not that long ago, the ``global economy&#39;&#39; meant that routine factory jobs were going overseas.
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Once a symbol of post-Soviet industrial decay, many are reviving and boosting local economies.