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August 8 NEWS Tech Visas For Immigrant Students Can Solve Industry Problems: Rep Lofgren The visa will allow a foreign graduate to stay in America for five years, and will have no annual cap as in the case of H-IB visas, says the Democrat from Silicon Valley. MOVIES Night Shyamalan Is Very Disturbed: Bruce Willis "There have only been three scripts that I have ever read in my career that I immediately knew I wanted to do and The Sixth Sense was one of those," the star says of Shyamalan's third film. BUSINESS Insights into Second Generation Entrepreneurship epinions.com was founded in April 1999 by a group of Internet veterans from Yahoo!, Netscape, America Online, @Home and Wired, some of whom left options on the table at their previous companies for the excitement of starting a new company. CHARITY Spices for Education in New York Asha for Education is presenting Spice Week '99 in New York City to mark the 52nd anniversary of Indian Independence and raise funds for its children's educational causes in India. HAPPENINGS More Desi Parties What to do, where to go, for the I-Day celebrations. August 7 NEWS Basuta Sentencing Postponed For Second Time But Judge William Kennedy refuses to allow fresh trial of the Sikh nanny convicted of killing baby Oliver Smith in her daycare center in San Diego. NEWS Racist Billboards Evoke Strong Protests In New York Fumes Queens Borough president Claire Shulman: 'We don't need this kind of message. It just incites people to do and say things that are inappropriate in a city like ours.' ACHIEVER MTV Honcho Still Loves Bade Ghulam Ali Meet Nusrat Durrani, the Lucknowi-born director at MTV New York who was brought up on a fusion of the East and West. BUSINESS Indian Firm Wins New Product Award Universal Air Technology bagged the award for its technology that is effective against indoor air pollutants such as bacteria, viruses, molds, dust mite allergens and odors. HAPPENINGS More Desi Parties What to do, where to go, for the I-Day celebrations. August 6 NEWS Day Trader Sentenced For Defrauding Merrill Lynch, Investor At a meeting with the National Association of Security Dealers, it was decided that the company would assume losses for $280,000 and the investor for $505,000, as a result of Surya Prasad Davuluri's action. NEWS Grief-Struck Atlantans Get Consolation Also From Vedas and Koran 'An entire city desperately wants to know, why do bad things happen to good people?' THE REDIFF SPECIAL Informal Gurukul Completes 15 Years Every Sunday except for major holidays, about 150 children of mostly Indian descent from all over the Tampa Bay area have been attending the school, the first in the US where students could take classes and also interact with other Indians. Jhumpa Lahiri Carnatic concert Hindi music & dance Desi disco PBS Hinduism series SIPA events Hindu heritage camp August 5 NEWS Indian Tiger Bones Earn Small Fortunes In Chinatowns Officials at the Fish and Wildlife Services say getting the Chinese to change their mindset about the alleged efficacy of tiger products is far from easy. MOVIES Shyamalan's 'Sixth Sense' Set To Spook Competition The 29-year-old director has got a major studio grant him the same privilege as the veteran Kubrick had through his illustrious film-career: the final cut. THE REDIFF SPECIAL 'Eyes Wide Shut': Plenty of Cyberspace Barks But Where Is the Bite? 'What made Shezian and his co-believers not go beyond the cyberspace and conduct organized protest against the film's producers, Warner Bros,' says Aseem Chhabra. EATING OUT Meat And Potato City Offers Spicy Delicacies From Subcontinent Today there are more than 50 restaurants in greater Chicago that serve food from the Indian Subcontinent, with the Windy City ceasing to be the 'Hog Butcher for the World', as Carl Sandburg called it seven decades ago.
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