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Before I left the Panafest activities, I visited the Cape Coast Castle, a major British fort in the transatlantic slave trade. I immediately felt shaken, sensing the ghosts of death around me in the dungeon. Even thinking about the pain of the thousands of slaves that died where I was standing was an impossible task. One can still see the color line on the wall about two feet up from the ground, to where the human waste collected. Millions of Africans were once held here, caught in the darkest period of human history...
...fighting vehicle, blowing off its lid and killing a young medic who, though based in the rear, had volunteered to enter the fighting fray. A few feet forward, the toll would have been worse, killing the Bradley commander and his gunner. "This is a war of inches," says a shaken U.S. officer...
Senior wideout Rodney Byrnes made an even earlier exit during the game’s third series after a crushing collision with junior cornerback Keith Howell left him stunned on the field. Byrnes was shaken up and sat with ice bags wrapped around his neck, but received only a bandage on his chin...
...Customers using this phone simply place a call as normal, provided they have access to a wi-fi zone. This lets them do an end run around the mobile network. The lines between Internet service and phone service are blurring, and just as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has shaken up the fixed-line phone business, it is now poised to disrupt the mobile business. At stake is a slice of the $550 billion in voice revenue that London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says mobile operators will generate in 2010. The revelation in August that Google will begin providing...
...gimmicky premise. To be sure, it contains more than enough colorfully staged capital crimes to satisfy its more bloodthirsty viewers, but those events take place within a densely layered plot and moral climate. The hired killer, Ledda (Jan Decleir), is a consummate and seemingly phlegmatic professional, now secretly shaken by the knowledge that his mental lights are dimming...