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...Knox, was in the courtroom, following the testimony with the help of an interpreter. "I'm very happy," he told TIME at the end of the day. "She's done a fantastic job. She has cleared up a lot of questions; for example, Why did she turn off her cell phone that night? She turned off her cell phone because she didn't want to get called back to work that night. She has nothing to hide...
...Meanwhile, in my quest to see Dinda's pictures, the site asked me to upload a headshot. Sure, no biggie. Then it started asking for my cell-phone number and making all these ridiculous offers for sweepstakes and other stuff no one should want. I'd skip an offer; another would come up. It was all junk. That's when I realized this was shady. I finally got to Dinda's page - no pictures...
...into my research, I saw that those who were really effective made use of not just a "to-do" list but a "stop-doing" list. I set up a time almost every day where I turn off my cell phone and do not get on [the Internet]. It's a pocket of quietude. I also leave white space on my calendar, roughly three days every two weeks. Nothing can be scheduled during white-space time. I try to create bubbles of tranquil time for hard thinking. It can also be a day where...
...lives and displaced 350,000. Its terrible climax came on New Year's Day in the largely Kikuyu village of Kiambaa in the northern Rift Valley, when a Kalenjin mob surrounded a tiny village church where a few hundred people were sheltering, freed those who gave up cell phones or money or sex, closed the doors, heaped mattresses and dry maize leaves against them and set them alight. Thirty-eight people were burned alive. It took scientists at the morgue in nearby Eldoret more than a year to separate the remains. But while DNA tests could distinguish body parts...
...Kenya - where multiparty democracy competes with feudal tribalism - could be said to be precisely those you would expect in a country racing at breakneck speed towards modernity. Africa is trying to cover in a few decades what took Europe centuries. Chaos and contradiction - Kenyans are just as comfortable with cell-phone banking as they are with bartering - might be an indication of a country on the move. Kenya is changing. Last year's violence hastened the emergence of a highly critical civil-society movement which has become a sobering force in Kenyan politics. And even a pessimist would have...