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...dips and eddies and soaring visions of a man who has transformed his world to his exact standards, you may catch a glimpse of your own future. ?Can you imagine the potential of a mud-and-bamboo IT center?? he exclaims as he whirls around the packed-dirt floor of his new media office, jabbing fingers at bamboo-reinforced mud walls, woven grass ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking emerald rice paddies. ?This entire building comes to less than the cost of our air-conditioning unit.? This, his latest project, comes out of a desire...
...clear. Waly's village of Ambadedi has sent thousands of migrants to Paris since his father Mamadou first headed there. Set atop the steep northern bank of the Senegal River, the village at first glance looks like countless others in West Africa. Goats and donkeys meander down the dirt lanes, and women scrub clothes in the river. But Ambadedi has cherished luxuries that are absent from other remote parts of Mali. There is a generator that lights up most of the houses every night. A water tower feeds water to several collection points. And television antennas bristle from the rooftops...
...bestseller list. According to a Times article from March 2002, Vise returned 17,000 of those books—and got his money back, but also got his title on the paper’s bestseller list for at least eight weeks.Google searches not only serve to dig up dirt on public figures; they verge on replacing libraries and phonebooks. Google rivals Gutenberg’s printing press as a contribution to communication and Google’s relevance, like its company’s stock price, is skyrocketing.Vise—along with researcher Mark Malseed—systematically...
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...pursuit. But as a regular at Kabul's only golf course, McNeill puts up with some extra hazards that would test the mettle of Tiger Woods. The grassless fairways of rock and stubble are cratered by rocket shells. The greens are in fact brown, a mix of oil and dirt with the consistency of quicksand. Approach shots are complicated by the possibility that insurgents have planted land mines on the course. And your swing may be off-kilter because you probably have a pistol strapped to your thigh, just in case kidnappers are lurking nearby. "Sometimes you look over," says...