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...uranium in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima came from the Congo. So does the cobalt, essential in the construction of advanced fighter aircraft, as well as diamonds, gold and some of the purest copper on the planet. Even the coltan computer chips in the latest Sony Play Station are made from columbite-tantalite, a mineral mined in the Congo...
...Coyah, a town in Guinea blessed with springs of the purest water, Ibrahim and Marie ignored the tradition. Not defiantly but without thought, because Aisha was their first child and they were distracted by worries. No one was buying the beds Ibrahim built, and refugees from Liberia and Sierra Leone were spilling into the country, carrying with them tales of brutality...
...purest form, television is a form of communication—a connection between people, as informative as any telephone conversation one will have. It keeps us in touch with what every other college student is watching and what every other college student knows...
...next to her, inquired if I knew that I was in the presence of a legend?! As it happens, I recognized the figure as '60s/'70s musician Dave Mason from previous encounters. The woman, one Laurie Henry (who described herself as his publicist), then proceeded to give me that purest of Hollywood art forms, the pitch: This parking lot encounter had been preordained. The movie "Traffic" had won four Oscars that night - and here I was standing with one of the co-founders of the legendary rock group Traffic! (This was a stretch, and one of 12-seater-limo proportions...
...said - but, more importantly, as a way of avoiding cultural currency. Not using words keeps the "Frank" stories timeless and universal. If you share "Frank" with your Bushman friends and even your Oxford don friends, everyone will be able to "get it." Wordless, sequential drawings have been the purest form of communication since prehistory. "Frank" continues the tradition...