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...African countries, according to the Africa Progress Panel, a group led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "The financial meltdown that evolved into an economic recession has now become a development crisis," warns the panel's report, released on Wednesday. "Combined with the food crisis, the volatility in fuel costs and climate change, it threatens to reverse Africa's recent progress...
...stop operating along with the rest of the craft, rendering it basically useless. However, much of the plane's remains were recovered, and once a large part was reassembled, it allowed experts to conclude that the explosion was the result of an accidental mixture of air and fuel fumes that ignited in a central tank...
...over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, the discovery of metal fragments and an examination of the type of damage to one section of the plane pointed experts to a small bomb as the source of the calamity. Forensics has also cleared up questions in otherwise obvious accidents, such as the fuel-tank explosion of an Air France Concorde in 2000 that killed 113 people. During that thorough inquiry, experts not only discovered where and how the tanks caught fire but even located the origin: a metal strip that had fallen off a Continental Airlines plane, setting off a fatal chain...
...lease expensive battery packs to spread the cost over the lifetime of the car. The electricity required to run an electric car costs about a penny a mile, he says, compared with 10 cents a mile for a gas-powered vehicle. "Think of a battery as part of the fuel of the car," says Richter. "When you buy a new car you don't buy 10,000 gallons of gasoline out of the dealer showroom. As purchasing terms are structured in a way that is acceptable for consumers, people start to notice the convenience...
...With more than 1,000 new hooks that developers can tap into, third-party iPhone programmers are having a field day with the 3.0 operating system. The iPhone is becoming a platform for precisely the kind of cheap and disruptive technologies that fuel start-ups. The car-rental company ZipCar, for instance, showed off an app that lets you lease a car from your phone and points you to the parking space of the car itself. When you get close to the car, the iPhone can unlock the automobile as if it were a key. Seriously, how cool is that...