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...disoriented little girl named Nanu. "Here," she realized, "was my replacement slave." At moments like this we sense the sadness of the stories we will never read, the stories of those who lived as slaves and died that way. Jacobs, Tubman and Nazer are miraculous exceptions, blessed with the iron will, steely intellect and golden luck required to survive an ordeal that spared only the truly indomitable. The lives of most of their fellow sufferers will remain unwritten...
Geobacter's secret is its unique metabolism: the microbes expel electrons outside their cell walls without needing to convert them to water, as human cells do. Geobacter needs only an outside compound--usually iron oxide, or rust--to accept the excess electrons. Lovley discovered how to coax Geobacter into not only dumping electrons onto uranium waste but also consuming petroleum by-products. Geobacter has already effectively decontaminated a uranium mine in Colorado and an oil spill in Minnesota...
...from the city's working class. But there is one place where their two worlds intersect: Hotel de Pilawoos. No evening out in Colombo is complete without an after-midnight pit stop by this grungy eatery on the Galle Road. If you're put off by the rust-ridden iron furniture and curry-stained floors (Pilawoos doesn't win awards for hygiene), then follow the example of the local ?lite and chow down in the comfort of your car. Any time of day or night, you'll find dozens of cars parked out front, while waiters in white sarongs scurry...
Another good reason to go is the one disdained by straight-to-Mars boosters: learning how to live off the land--manufacturing some of what we need from soil that contains oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium and titanium, plus a dusting of helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon deposited by solar winds...
...fallen," says Paul Macuei Malok, 51, Rumbek county commissioner. "We have embarked on development," he says, then corrects himself. "Not development really, but rehabilitation." Rumbek is ahead of most of the rest of the south in its recovery. A few crumbled buildings have been rebuilt and refitted with corrugated-iron roofs. Merchants have opened new stores. The hospital may not have reliable water, electricity or supplies - "They don't have soap to wash the floor, so you work in the dirt in a surgical ward," says Filippo De Pasquale, an Italian volunteer doctor - but at least it has been...