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...fitting, in an ironic sense, that BBC journalist Lucy Jago chose Kristian Birkeland for the subject of her first book. Birkeland unlocked the secrets of the aurora borealis, and it was the British that scoffed at Birkeland’s theories and dismissed his work in the early 1900s. The Northern Lights recounts Birkeland’s life-long journey through the still-fledgling fields of electromagnetism and solar astronomy. Jago’s book, although well-written and interesting, fails to rise to the level of “thrilling” that the publisher touts...
...journalist who has not been trained in how to behave in these very dangerous parts of the world is complete folly," says Chris Cramer, president of cnn International, whose organization uses AKE, a U.K. company that offers courses similar to Centurion?s. Cramer should know. While working for the BBC in 1980, he was taken hostage at the Iranian embassy in London. "I can tell you that the real thing is not unlike the hostage simulation these courses offer. They help prepare you for the worst...
...BBC uses Britain?s Pilgrims Group, as well as Bruhn NewTech, which teaches its students how to recognize and protect themselves in chemical and biological attacks. Ian Day, the firm?s training manager, says 27 BBC journalists attended his two-day course in London in the first week of October alone, while another 17 took a course at the BBC offices in Jerusalem. Reuters has sent 368 journalists to Centurion?s five-day course, which incorporates two hours of chemical warfare training. Paul Rees, director of Centurion, says clients pay around $1,900 each for the residential course. Says Reuters...
...BBC and [I read that] in Aedis Ababa, the capitol of Ethiopia, 2000 university students had been arrested for protesting for free speech. Thirty-one were killed in the protest,” Tiruneh said...
...Omar's knowledge of international affairs is limited to whatever he is able to grasp from Pushtu-language radio broadcasts by the BBC and Voice of America. He has met a few foreign diplomats and a small number of journalists. Common members of the Taliban can see him easily. In the past, he sat on his office carpet and received visitors. However, since being elevated to the status of Amirul Momineen, or Commander of the Faithful, he sits on a raised platform. He has learned to drive his luxury Land Cruiser and is adept at handling satellite phones and walkie...