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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most places, a nightly blackout would provoke outrage as residents find themselves fumbling and stumbling their way home through the dark. But in Dörentrup, they have seen the light, with a new scheme that allows residents to turn on streetlights on demand - anytime, anywhere - using just their cell phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Bright Idea: Street Lighting on Demand | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...touch with the local utility company Lemgo and together they came up with a solution: How about turning on the village lights with a simple telephone call? Lemgo developed a special modem and software to make it possible, and Dial4Light was born. (See pictures of the odyssey of the cell phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Bright Idea: Street Lighting on Demand | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...bags with meat and rice for that evening's dinner were found in the dusty road near an olive grove. Over the course of several days in April last year, the boy says he was moved from an army camp to a prison, where he was crammed into a cell with five other children, cursed at and humiliated by the guards and beaten by his interrogator until he confessed to stone-throwing. (See pictures of Israeli soldiers sweeping into Gaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Israel Mistreat Palestinian Child Prisoners? | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...didn't have any inkling of what was going on at home. No idea that Hillary Clinton had broken her arm, or how Obama's health-care initiative was going. But as we gathered for breakfast at our orientation site Friday morning, people periodically rushed in, clutching their cell phones, exclaiming, "Michael Jackson died!" —the one piece of news their parents thought important enough to share via text message from the U.S. Suddenly, home felt a whole lot closer...

Author: By Kate Leist | Title: (Some) News Travels | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...Tanzanian teaching partners, mostly university students, all have songs from 50 Cent and Ne-Yo on their cell phones. They count down the days until films like Angels and Demons are released at the theater in Arusha. One of the guys carries a not-so-secret torch for Hannah Montana. I never would have expected to be singing along with an Avril Lavigne song while bumping down an African highway, but these little things make up a common language that reaches even to the furthest corners of the world...

Author: By Kate Leist | Title: (Some) News Travels | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

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