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With so many still suffering, Kenyans are dubious that the country will properly reckon with what happened. Kenyan leaders have agreed to create a tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators, but rights groups say the proposed law creating it is so full of holes as to render the tribunal useless. "The real perpetrators and the real financiers will actually go scot-free," says Ruth Oniang'o, who runs a rural outreach program and lost in her bid for a parliamentary seat in 2007. "This is the Kenya I know and the Kenya I understand. Money and power talk, and those...
...official drought level is 1,125 ft.) If the water continues to decline, says marine geophysicist Tim Barnett of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, "buckle up." Barnett co-authored a study estimating a 50% chance that a combination of climate change and increased demand could render Mead effectively dry by 2021. Mulroy doubts Barnett's dire conclusion, but she knows Las Vegas--and the world beyond--faces an existential crisis over water. "This is about being able to survive as a human being," she says. (See pictures of the world water crisis...
...shooters and prevent easy shots at the basket.”With the short trip to Lavietes, the Terriers may bring another supplement to the derby to boost the team—its fans. Amaker hopes the Crimson’s own supporters can render the visiting faithful a moot point.“We need a great environment, we need our arena to be a distinct home court advantage for us,” he said. “They’re right down the road, they’ve had a successful program, and they?...
...clear, however, how quickly the court will render its verdicts, leaving the question of how long antigovernment forces intend to maintain this vigil that, in the last week, has led to the loss of millions of tourist dollars and left an estimated 100,000 passengers stranded. The PAD has been protesting since May, when the government announced it would begin amending the constitution. The protesters and other critics of the government claim it intends to change the charter in ways that would torpedo the cases against it, and also cases and convictions against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
...Also hitting the market are organic LEDs, or OLEDs, which are sure to render CRTs and LCDs obsolete once engineers overcome limits to size and longevity. They’re thinner and more energy efficient than LCDs and have a greater range of colors, including true black. The New York Times said Sony’s XEL-1 was like “looking out a window. With the glass missing.” OLEDs have much superior viewing angles, so that, unlike the typical laptop LCD screen, they won’t go dark when you turn your head...