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...three years ago Nigeria became only the second country in sub-Saharan Africa (after South Africa) to launch its own satellite. NigeriaSat-1 took off from Russia but is controlled by Nigerian scientists and engineers from a ground station in Abuja. The satellite, which was built in Britain, is part of a network called the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. Its job includes keeping an orbiting eye on Nigeria's vanishing forest resources and often vandalized oil pipelines. It also watches for impending disasters such as fires and floods and shares the information with a consortium that includes Algeria, China, Thailand, Turkey...
...Those who know Edwards personally say that she’s a down-to-earth student who shares much common ground with the youth of her generation...
...just wanted to find out what was going on there. And there’s really no way to find out what’s going on in China, particularly things they don’t want to have known, without being on the ground,” said Zeckhauser, who expressed serious doubts about the legitimacy of the espionage charge...
Senior shortstop Lauren Brown sacrificed the runners to second and third, where Vertovez would score from on junior first baseman Danielle Kerper’s ground out. Sophomore catcher Hayley Bock walked, bringing up Schellberg...
...them that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a major hash out of last summer's war in Lebanon. When Hizballah kidnapped three Israeli solders last July, Olmert launched a massive military campaign whose stated goal was beyond reach: to end Hizballah's existence as a military threat. Instead, Israeli ground troops found themselves bogged down in deadly urban combat with Hizballah guerilla whose tenacity and tactics the Israelis were unprepared for. That, together with the barrage of rockets into northern Israel that continued until the cease-fire went into effect, allowed the Islamist group to claim...