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...look like a clever new way of turning over fields--an agricultural innovation, perhaps, meant to increase crop yields. But the locals know the truth. Buried under the pyramids, which now number in the thousands, are their mothers and fathers, brothers, sisters and cousins, all victims of AIDS. Like silent sentries, the dirt graves are a testament to China's worst-kept secret...
...electrical power for up to five hours with the engine turned off. Fuel cells are also quieter and cooler than traditional portable generators and therefore are harder for the enemy to detect. "Aside from the need for additional power, we occasionally need to go into what's called silent watch," says an Army official at the Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, Mich., who requested anonymity. Fuel cells last longer than the batteries that currently support such operations. The devices can also provide soldiers with water, a much needed resource, especially for those stationed in desert conditions. The water...
...leaving tonight for the Libyan border, but they will be making the trip in a single well-worn flatbed truck. "It's just luck which truck you wind up in," Abdi Salan says. The Somalis cram into the back with their meager belongings and are told to stay silent. They roll out of Khartoum in the pitch-black night at about 40 km/h. Abdi Salan has just one thought: at this rate it will take a lot longer than 48 hours to reach Libya. FROM KHARTOUM TO KUFRA The smugglers aren't challenged as they leave Khartoum and pass...
...darkens as a stream of commuters in the Square tramples snow into slush and crowds the slippery steps of an escalator descending into the T station. They reassemble on the outbound platform, glancing at the tracks as an Alewife-bound train rumbles above. For a moment, the station falls silent. Then at once there is music, echoing off the crimson tiles and turning heads toward the rear of the platform...
...hope she just continues in a really beautiful way to communicate with audiences,” she says. “I hope that her ideas make people less scared of interaction. Still when she asks people to talk, everybody’s too shy and conditioned to be silent, and have her be the authority and them be the consumers. I think she’s really trying to change that and that’s going to take a long time...