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...Maka, it is still too early to return to her store. She has spread a blanket on the ground under a market stall displaying her okra and onions. She has three young children and has lived her whole life in Tawila, but her husband works in Libya and she is determined to leave. "I cannot live here anymore," she says, "I am shamed. Will my husband want me when he returns?" For Maka, the question needs no answer. She says she will gather her children and cross the desert footpaths to Al Fashir...
...SECURITY BLANKET...
What Harvard must do is better balance the risks involved in traveling to international destinations with the benefits that travel to these locations will bring. For many of these countries, a blanket restriction simply ignores the nuances of regional realities—deterring travel to many safe locations while sanctioning travel to plenty of more dangerous places. Regions of India, for example, can be far riskier for students than neighborhoods in Beirut or Sanaa. The border of Lebanon and Israel is not a safe place for Harvard students to travel to, but neither is the border of India and Pakistan...
...research group Analysys predicts that by 2009 there will be over 38 million wi-fi subscribers in the U.S. and Western Europe alone. Most observers believe that its next big step will be the introduction of WiMAX, a technology developed by Intel that, as soon as next year, should blanket not just coffee shops but entire cities...
...Islamic warrior, is in a surprisingly good mood for a guy sharing a Kabul jail cell with a hungry rat. A burly figure with black locks and a black beard, Mujahed prays in a corner, oblivious to the progress of the rat as it tunnels under a gray blanket toward a bag of dates. Rising from prayer, the devout Taliban says through the bars of the cell, "When I was on jihad, the holy Prophet Muhammad talked to me in my dreams...