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...light in the town has a disproportionate amount of power,” he said. To prevent exploitation and ignorance about how to properly use the product, Lebone Solutions plans to oversee a grassroots system where African entrepreneurs sell the devices. In July, Lebone Solutions will conduct a pilot study in Tanzania with 10 devices in 10 households, Fabry said. In September, the team will distribute devices in Namibia, where a significant portion of the population is without power. The World Bank grant will be used to transport the devices. Lebone Solutions has secured private funding from a British donor...
...fact, McCain has spent the majority of his life living with the physical disabilities and the mental trauma he suffered as a young Navy pilot. When his plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, McCain broke both his arms and his right leg at the knee. He was stabbed twice by a bayonet, had his shoulder smashed by a rifle butt and endured the angry kicks and punches of the mob that discovered him. Those injuries, along with the more calculated torture that followed during 5½ years of captivity, left him unable to raise either arm more than...
...initiative is called Friend Connect and it begins tonight when any site can apply to be in the Google pilot program (they call it a "preview release") here. Note: that site won't be live until Monday night. During the next few days, Google will choose one or two dozen sites to participate. Over the course of the next several months, the company will collect site, user and developer feedback on how the program is working. Then, if all goes well, in a few months Google will open up Friend Connect to any website or blog that wants to participate...
...wish it were as easy as saying we could just outsource to Gmail,” Selsby said. “But it’s a very complex situation.”Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) began a Gmail pilot in the fall of 2007, assigning a Gmail account to every incoming student. Students then use the Gmail interface to access the e-mail that was sent to a “gsd.harvard.edu” account.Yet relying on an outside provider may lead to privacy issues.“If Google somehow wasn?...
Salbi's drive is rooted deeply in her own journey, which began as the privileged Iraqi daughter of Saddam Hussein's personal pilot. Salbi's mother believed strongly in her daughter's education and encouraged her not to assume the traditional female role in Iraqi society. "Do not become a prisoner," Salbi remembers her mother telling her over and over again. "Marry for love. Don't learn to clean and cook, because then that is all you will ever do." But when Salbi turned 20, her mother insisted that she accept a marriage proposal from an Iraqi man living...