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...runoff for the presidential elections had just taken place, and the tightly controlled TV broadcasters were reporting that outgoing President Leonid Kuchma's favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, had beaten challenger Viktor Yushchenko. But evidence was mounting that the vote was rigged, and a crowd of protesters had begun to gather in Kiev's freezing, snowbound Independence Square. On Nov. 25, Dmitruk was assigned to translate the afternoon news into sign language for a deaf audience of some 100,000. But instead of repeating the official announcement that Yushchenko had lost, she signed instead: "Yushchenko is our President. Do not believe...
Although the industry is becoming more digitized, geology still has face-to-face--or face-to-rock--elements: when searching for new frontiers, explorers gather rocks in the field and run chemical tests to determine whether they once held oil; geologists may examine rock shavings on a rig to make sure drillers are hitting the right spot. "When someone spends $10,000 drilling the location you've scouted and makes a well, there's nothing more satisfying than that 'Attagirl' from investors," says Deborah Sacrey, a Houston-based geologist with her own company, Auburn Energy. "It's a huge sigh...
...lingering and haunting image of the morning was of an assembly of worshippers barely able to make its way up the aisle to receive communion. The people who had managed to gather, ostensibly to celebrate the Lord’s resurrection, were not jubilant but old, weak, infirm, and worst of all, unenthusiastic. The image I saw that day—the image of a civilization in its twilight—is difficult to bear on its own, but is made doubly more so when contrasted with the images of vitality we see across much of the rest...
...Brown is a hard-hitting defense,” Dawson said, “and on one of the earlier plays I took a hit. But I took a moment to gather myself. There was nothing that would keep me out of the game...
...Internet which cost money have a historically-demonstrated tendency to fade away whenever free alternatives exist. Newspapers and television networks no longer have a stranglehold on our information intake—they may still have a good grasp on pure news (which is expensive and difficult to gather well), but anyone with a modem can jot down some opinions, call it an op-ed, and slap it up on a web page for the world...