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...like Africa by the end of 2010. It's not the only ambitious scheme to bring the continent online. In recent months, work has begun on initiatives to connect countries in eastern and southern Africa - the only major populated regions not hooked up to the global broadband network of fiber-optic cables - to each other and the rest of the world through high-speed lines...
...only part of a flurry of telecom activity on the continent. Amid a push by Africa's leaders and telcos to modernize its networks over the next few years, a string of firms have partnered to build the East African Submarine Cable System, some 10,000 km of fiber-optic lines linking 21 countries from South Africa to Sudan. With work on the line started last year, the project is due for completion in 2009. The World Bank's $424 million Africa Regional Communications Infrastructure Program - a complementary scheme approved at roughly the same time - aims to have all major...
...those areas where it's not feasible to extend fiber cables - sparsely populated rural regions, say - O3b's satellite network will shift information around wirelessly, closing the digital divide still further. "Perhaps half of the entire African population does not live in major cities," says Brian Neilson, research director at BMI-TechKnowledge, a South Africa-based telecom consultancy, who adds that for O3b, "there is a clear gap-closing opportunity...
...young Obamacrats, Newport-smoking grudge carriers from Team Hillary stomping around in sensible shoes and, of course, a walking forest of gung-ho environmentalists. The proceedings in Denver were so relentlessly green that even the magnetic hotel card keys were made out of some sort of sustainable wood fiber. (I know because I had plenty of time to study my planet-friendly card key during several trips to the front desk to get it to finally work.) Obama's heavy chore in Denver was to unite all these folks to seize the opportunity of a big Democratic year...
...This disorder is found in industrialized, western nations - nations where diets have low dietary fiber. In Africa and Asia it is very uncommon," Strate says. Reliance on refined cereal grains may be a factor, Strate says, as well as red meat consumption, obesity, smoking, lack of physical activity, and perhaps even the impact of that daily aspirin so many Americans take on their doctor's advice. More study is needed, Strate says, to pinpoint causes...