(muscle) Car collection

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Destruction (and creation of new) of jobs through globalization

Read the full NY Times article here.

"Globalization is said to create winners and losers. For the Sawants, it created both. And that duality reflects the furious pace at which entire professions are being invented and entire professions destroyed in the rush to modernize India.

There is, on one hand, a national quest under way to excise inefficiencies — to cut out middlemen. As go the letter writers, so go bank tellers as India adopts A.T.M.’s, phone-booth operators as cellphones spread, and rural moneylenders as new Western-style supermarket chains start trading directly with farmers."

Review for a pen

An innovative and funny review of a pen purchesed on Amazon.

$7.2million for a 10hp car

yes, thats the price paid for this antique (ancient) car - a 1905 Rolls Royce 2 seater. Still in working condition.
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Lucky to survive

The driver of this car escaped with very minor injuries. Seems unbelievable if you look at the pics of the crash. More pics can be found here.