Finding Roots

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Day 2 dinner: idles, with sesame oil and gotsu (eggplant and tamarind concoction)

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Day 2 lunch: 'Vayaka'(raw banana) curry, 'molugu porichu kozhambu' with white rice, banana chips, and yoghurt

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Day 2 breakfast: Methi(fenugreek leaves) Paratha with kala channa and red bell pepper, and cucumber.

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Day 1 lunch: Green beans& coconut ‘curry’, broad beans, carrot, coconut ‘porichu kozhumbu’ with white rice

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Day 1, breakfast: Idli, Dosa, ‘molagu pachidi’, ‘molagu podi’ with sesame oil and buttermilk.

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Private Companies running Public Institutions in Sweden

SAINT GORAN’S hospital is one of the glories of the Swedish welfare state. It is also a laboratory for applying business principles to the public sector. The...

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Apple Tax Dodging Part 1

Apple serves as a window on how technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age and ill suited to today’s digital economy.

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Hospital Price Variations

Consumers on Wednesday will finally learn some answers about one of modern life’s most persistent mysteries: how much medical care actually costs.

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And also I have been introduced to Joan Didion.

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If you were following coverage of Sandy last night, you may have seen photos of nurses and firemen transporting babies from the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at NYU’s hospital. If you didn’t, you might consider looking them up. They’re very moving. They show courageous emergency and medical...

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The key passage:

Too many chief executives succumb to the pressure to boost short-term earnings at the expense of long-term value creation. After all, their compensation depends on it. In the lead-up to the financial crisis — to take just one extreme example — financial institutions took on far too much risk in search of easy profits that would lead to a higher stock price.

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India's power inefficiency in 1000 thousands. h/t Ezra Klein

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http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/the-fight-over-inequality/

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