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...truth, though, the problem is deeper. Deploying copper wire telephone service to rural areas in West Africa is expensive, and the obvious source of money to do something like this is from toll call revenues. Slice toll call revenue by making phone calls cheaper and, on the one hand, more Ghanaians can afford to talk to their relatives overseas more often at Internet cafes; but on the other hand, more Ghanaians have to wait longer before they can have telephones in their home, or before wireless phone service can be deployed in their area...
While Scotch geeks get goosebumps gazing upon imposing, graceful copper stills, the real fun for many people is in watching the foaming and burbling of fermentation. On visits you will have ample time to see the process as well as taste the new distillate...
...smeared with yellow and red pigment. If the color was consciously applied, the stone is one of the earliest indications of artistic expression ever found. Sandstone lions from the mid-1st century B.C. symbolize the Kushite state, and a gilded representation of a Kushite King is the largest copper-alloy statue yet found in Sudan. The Nubian settlement of Kerma was home to the earliest major urban centers in sub-Saharan Africa and produced, says curator Derek A. Welsby, "superb pottery, among the best ever made." Beakers dating from around 1750 B.C. have a distinctly contemporary look. A 19th century...
...years, routing high-quality video over phone lines was the impossible dream: telecom operators could not feed the copper wires that run into offices and homes fast enough. But the dream has finally come true, thanks to a series of technical advances, most notably a piece of networking gear called a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM, pronounced dee slam). This refrigerator-sized box deftly flips video data from the speedy fiber-optic networks that form the backbone of the phone system to the "final mile" of copper wires. DSLAMs have been around since 1997, but until two years...
...terrorist bombings, kidnappings and endemic corruption that plague the Philippines keep foreign investors at bay, but so do restrictive laws. For example, the country has some of the richest deposits of gold, copper and other minerals in the world?natural resources that could be developed using foreign capital. But the Philippine mining industry is stunted by a law enshrined in the constitution that limits foreign investment in mining projects to only 40%. As a result, the country exports only about $630 million of minerals a year, even though the government sees a potential of $5 billion. In January, the Supreme...