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...anyone has a reason to be skittish about space debris, it's the people of Texas. It's in Houston, after all, that much of what we launch into orbit is monitored. And it's in rural Texas that much of the flaming wreckage of the shuttle Columbia landed in 2003. Sunday morning, it looked like Texas was in the path of danger again, when police received numerous reports of a sonic boom, a visible fireball and debris descending in various spots around the state. That debris, people figured, had to be space junk reentering from Tuesday's collision between...
...before 2 p.m. It was a mini-Prohibition and, to get their lips on hooch, people were making alcohol with anything they had. One popular recipe suggested putting yeast, sugar and milk into a washing machine, switching it on a two hour cycle and then distilling the result. In rural Russia, peasants drank heart medication because they believed it contained alcohol...
...plunder. In the past 10 years alone, millions have died here, and more die each day as a result of the conflict. Most die not from war wounds but from starvation or disease. A lack of infrastructure means there is little medical care in the cities and none in rural communities, so any infection can be a death sentence. The most vulnerable suffer the worst. One in five children in Congo will die before reaching the age of 5 - and will do so out of sight of the world, in places that camera crews cannot reach, deep in a vast...
...Others in the industry disagree. While Dean of BDA acknowledges that the growth in mobile communications in China is mainly in rural areas where "your 700 millionth subscriber couldn't care less about 3G," he notes that the country's market is so huge there is room for 3G services to prosper. BDA projections put the total number of mobile subscribers in China at 1 billion by 2013, of which nearly a quarter - 247 million - will be 3G users...
...earn a four-year scholarship to study liberal arts as well as a specific public service field. At its full capacity, the academy would serve approximately 5000 students a year; upon graduation, these students will fulfill a five-year service requirement in areas of critical need: teaching in a rural school in Mississippi, for instance, or working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency...