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Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)Zana Briski is a photographer who's been living in Calcutta for a couple of years. She found herself documenting the lives of female prostitutes through photos. She quickly found herself teaching a group of curious children who wanted to know who she was and what she did. We liked her the first time we saw her, Kochi said. She is one of the nine children whose mother's are prostitutes.

 The Taliban have one more feather in their turbans - Bunner district in Pakistan. According to reports, it is  around 70 miles from the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, where probably the most dysfunctional democratic head of a nation resides. According to news media reports, the Taliban had tried to take over the ditsrict before but were thrown out by the residents who fought back and threw them out. This time, evidently, they were outnumbered and overwhelmed.
 

A couple of days before the Senate passed President Obama's $3.5 trillion budget, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show asked guest, Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, "So, who will finance this deficit?".
 
The deficit in question is $15 trillion in about a decade from now, a figure projected by Orszag's office.
 
Again, who will finance this deficit?
 
"Who would you call?" asked Stewart.
 
"Foreign creditors," replied Orszag.
 

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A couple of days back, Tata Motors, the largest automobile company in India, announced the launch of Nano, the cheapest car in the world, with the basic version available for approximately $2500!
 
The basic model, however, costs what it does because it truly is a basic model, no air-conditioning, power steering or power windows. You can, however, get all this if you pay a little more for the higher versions.