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Jonathan is also well acquainted with the environmental damage oil has done to the Delta. He studied zoology, and later taught it at a university in the oil hub of Port Harcourt. He also once worked as an environmental protection officer in the region. "He will perform," says Clark, a political powerbroker in the south and then man who persuaded Jonathan to stand for vice president. (See if a military coup would help Nigeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Goodluck Jonathan the Answer to Nigeria's Woes? | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

...argue in good faith that Jobs and Apple are not committed to user-created media is to ignore the entire first wave of Jobs' reinvention of Apple: the iPod may have turned Apple into a Wall Street icon, but it was the iMac and the whole iLife digital-hub positioning that brought the company back from the dead. During the iPad keynote, four of the most impressive (and in-depth) demos were content-creation apps: Brushes and the iWork trio. There is no doubt in my mind that some rendition of iLife will launch within a year on the iPad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions (and Answers) on the iPad's Shortcomings | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...draped in a sparkly white gown, henna tattoos running up her arms, sat silent and tearful as she prepared to meet her groom for the first time. I hadn't meant to spend the night in this tiny village in a country everyone is pointing to as the next hub of global terrorism. But it's not every day that you get invited to an Al-Qaeda wedding. (Watch a video of road tripping on the edge in Yemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wedding in the Town of Al-Qaeda | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...which to launch the rail projects. Together, the metro areas of Tampa and Orlando are a major economic unit, home to more than 3.4 million people and close enough on the map to make high-speed rail competitive with air and auto travel. The region is also a tourist hub, which makes it likely that a Tampa-Orlando rail line will be well-used by Americans from around the country. That makes it a smart advertisement for other high-speed-rail projects back in their home regions. (Read "A Brief History of High-Speed Rail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can High-Speed Rail Succeed in America? | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...after a few phone calls, the organizers were put through to the CEO of TACA Airlines—a Latin American airline company with a hub in Houston—who agreed to ship the books from Texas to El Salvador for free...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GSE Students Bring Books To Caluco | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

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