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Unless the mines can be found first. "There are a lot of promises in land-mine detection, but still, what people often come back to is the guy poking around with a stick," says Elleholm, speaking of technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, infrared devices and thermal neutron activation. Many current methods are slow and cover no more than 1% of the estimated 77,220 sq. mi. of the world's land-mine-infested territory every year. Elleholm says Aresa's technique can cover five times as much ground in the same amount of time as other detection techniques...
Charbonneau said yesterday that he is currently focused on the MEarth Project, which involves building an array of ground-based telescopes to detect potentially habitable planets. These telescopes will focus on rocky planets orbiting nearby low-mass stars that are cooler and dimmer than the Sun. The first few telescopes have already been built in Southern Arizona...
...Latin America, and those of the rest of the developed world, were reflected just before the summit last week in a report by the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation & Development. The OECD called the region's economic showing "sub-optimal," and said even its best performers continue "losing ground to their Asian competitors...
Sixteen years ago, Irene Abonyo was held down to the ground and her lips and ears viciously sliced off by rebels in northern Uganda. But 70-year old Abonyo is in a forgiving mood. She attended a steamy, overcrowded town-hall meeting to see, on better terms this time, one of the world's most terrifying rebel groups, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). After a dialogue, she went over to shake the hand of a former LRA fighter. He held her hand, but refused to have his picture taken with the disfigured woman. "I will still forgive," Abonyo explains...
During a visit to Uganda's capital, Kampala, just before the tour began, a delegation of LRA representatives released a conciliatory dove. Both the visit and gesture were unprecedented. But, perhaps fittingly, the symbol of peace plummeted dead to the ground shortly after the bird took flight. The burden of some sins may just be too heavy, no matter how much they have been forgiven...