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...interest in the developing world. They had done enough volunteer work overseas to see how wireless communications might improve and save lives - through phone calls to health clinics, fast reporting of natural disasters, support for trading co-ops and better educational opportunities. So they designed a solar-powered Internet network that is inexpensive, easy to install and nearly maintenance free. At its heart is a regional hub from which wireless relay stations - some bolted to trees - fan out for up to four miles and connect a network of PCs. Total cost, including solar panels and relay stations...
...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, Vietnam and Britain...
...anything. Andrew Dlugolecki, an independent climate-change consultant and a veteran of the insurance industry, says, "It's good that they have spoken out, but I don't see them as serious in changing the insurance industry." That sentiment is echoed by Michael Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Network, which has successfully lobbied Bank of America, Citibank and major U.S. retailer Home Depot to change their sustainable-development positions. "If you want to be an environmental leader, then you need to switch from relying on dirty old energy and embrace new, renewable strategies...
...least 3,000 stations out of 11,000 outlets. In came economies of scale, calcified playlists, ROI and Dr. Laura, and out went boss jocks and news on the half-hour. Corporate stations generated some $18 billion in revenue last year, vs. the independents' $394 million, reports BIA Financial Network Inc. Along the way, though, Big Radio lost a good chunk of bored 18-to-24-year-olds, many of whom have defected to their iPods or the indies. Satellite radio is another threat, but declines of 41% and 55% in the stock prices of Sirius and XM this year...
...filled auditions to the finals.…invest plenty of time and a record amount of money in a new kind of hybrid voyeur-house drama/talent competition show only to have its first episode draw the second-smallest audience of any premiere of any show on a major network. Ever: ABC really messed up with “The One,” which was supposed to change reality TV as we know it. At least it puts in perspective your failure to do anything with your free time besides idly clutch at the remote.—Reviewer...