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...installed with Google’s Android operating system, the black flip-phones have also been loaned to students serving as teaching fellows for CS 50, offered this semester. “What was so appealing were Google’s plans for a dragon drop programming piece, a language similar to the language already used in CS 50,” said David J. Malan ’99, the class course instructor. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Slurry is dyed bright red to aid in visibility and help tanker pilots drop a seamless line of retardant. "Basically, they're trying to box in the fire," says Janet Upton of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), which is helping to battle the giant Station fire near Los Angeles. Another advantage of slurry is that unlike water, fertilizer doesn't evaporate. (It offers still another bonus for farmers, who have requested that unused slurry be dropped onto their fields as aircraft make their way home.) (Read a 1977 essay: "What Ever Happened to California...
Though slurry doesn't look particularly eco-friendly, aerial firefighting is not environmentally harmful, Upton says - though planes avoid dumps near lakes, streams and other waterways (in especially sensitive areas, tankers drop plain water instead). The Forest Service also advises against allowing pets to swallow the stuff, as with other fertilizers. Still, the retardant poses another, less-publicized hazard, Upton says: to fashion. She's been on the ground as a rain of colored fertilizer falls from the sky: "I've had plenty of pink t-shirts...
...report's figures are startling. The U.N. agency's staff, made up of expatriates and Afghans, have been monitoring the country's poppy fields on the ground and from aerial surveillance cameras and they have found that farmers this year planted far fewer poppies - an estimated drop from last year of about 79,000 acres (about 32,000 hectares), or 22% of the country's entire opium crop. Afghanistan's output usually accounts for more than 90% of the world's heroin. The price that Afghan farmers get for their opium has also crashed, dropping by a third since last...
...third term two years ago, Uribe probably didn't expect to run out of time, but he appears to have miscalculated his support in Congress. Many lawmakers loyally back the president's policies, especially his national security program which has driven back Marxist guerrillas and led to a steep drop in homicides and kidnappings. But some fear that another four-year term would put too much power in the hands of Uribe, turning him into a right-wing version of Hugo Chávez. Others, like Senator German Vargas Lleras who is the grandson of a former president, want...