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The government and Eskom say that the economy has grown too fast to cope with new energy demands, and South Africa must cut use by 10-15%. Power demand has increased 50% since apartheid ended in 1994, with almost 3.5 million homes having been added to the national grid from...
Like many who live through a war, Venter returned a different man. He wanted to attend medical school and enrolled in community college and then at the University of California at San Diego. By graduation in 1972, he had become enamored of biochemistry and decided to pursue a graduate degree...
Zhou Shuguang's brief but spectacular career as China's first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou's offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs...
Thus ended a nine-month adventure during which the onetime vegetable seller from a small village in Hunan province had vaulted to Internet stardom as a kind of digital knight errant; his blog, Zhou Shuguang's Golden Age, publicized the plight of the victims of China's frantic economic boom...
The siege of Gaza, imposed by Israel after Hamas seized the Palestinian territory last July, ended abruptly before dawn on Jan. 23 when militants blew holes in a border wall and over 350,000 Palestinians swarmed into Egypt.