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...provide off-grid lighting to over 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Lebone Solutions’ device, which has been in the works for eight months, is a microbial fuel cell-based lighting system that generates a current from the energy produced by metabolizing microbes in soil or manure. The technology produces enough energy to power a cell phone or a radio—little commodities that are especially important in a place with no electricity, said Alexander B. Fabry ’09, a member of Lebone Solutions. The device was designed by a team...
...said. “I’m interested in getting people to think about the life of a leaf from the beginning all the way through leaf bud, new tiny newborn leaf, then at the end of the summer they fall off and decay into the soil.” The Cornell-educated photographer said her work was influenced by artists like Jackson Pollack, and in the case of this exhibition, by one quotation from Pollack in particular: “My concern is with the rhythms of nature...I work inside out, like nature...
...extra cheap in the U.S. market, in the same way China is accused of currently doing with the yuan. Americans freaked when Japanese companies bought supposedly priceless U.S. assets like Rockefeller Center and Columbia Pictures; today, Americans freak out when Chinese firms even attempt to purchase anything on U.S. soil. American manufacturers cried out for protection against the evil Japanese onslaught orchestrated by the sinister Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). Otherwise, the U.S. economy would be doomed...
...relief workers. The government says it will allow a US C-130 transport plane to land inside Burma Monday. But it's hard to imagine a regime this insular and paranoid accepting robust aid from the U.S. military, let alone agreeing to the presence of U.S. Marines on Burmese soil - as Thailand and Indonesia did after the tsunami. The trouble is that the Burmese haven't shown the ability or willingness to deploy the kind of assets needed to deal with a calamity of this scale - and the longer Burma resists offers of help, the more likely it is that...
...little wonder that Botswana is the setting for Alexander McCall Smith's tales of contented Africa in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Thanks to the wealth in its soil coupled with a succession of honest and capable leaders, the country has gone through one of the most rapid economic transformations in recent history. It wasn't too long ago that Batswana children were schooled under trees and the country was so poor that its postindependence leaders famously told inquiring businessmen that there was "no point being corrupt." After years of consistent growth--Botswana since independence...