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...three years ago Nigeria became only the second country in sub-Saharan Africa (after South Africa) to launch its own satellite. NigeriaSat-1 took off from Russia but is controlled by Nigerian scientists and engineers from a ground station in Abuja. The satellite, which was built in Britain, is part of a network called the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. Its job includes keeping an orbiting eye on Nigeria's vanishing forest resources and often vandalized oil pipelines. It also watches for impending disasters such as fires and floods and shares the information with a consortium that includes Algeria, China, Thailand, Turkey...
...coverage? Senior Day? The rivalry? Or the pressure of potentially ending the season sub-.500?Whatever the cause, Harvard did not come ready to play on Saturday in a 9-8 loss to Yale. The squad did not manage its first shot until nearly 10 minutes had passed—by that point the Bulldogs already had three of their four first-quarter goals. Yale took nine shots to the Crimson’s two in that frame.For a team that prides itself on its ability to handle the ball and be patient, the most surprising aspect of the game...
...people caught on to the pattern it became like a compulsion for a lot of people to constantly keep up with. And that was great.”Once the grunt work was over, offers from labels began to roll in. Bishop Allen recently signed to Dead Oceans, a sub-group of the Secretly Canadian record label, where they hope to preserve their “do-it-yourself” mode of operation.“That’s the only way that makes sense to me,” says Rice. “The kind...
...world's powers pressure all sides to agree to a truce and allow for the deployment of a larger peacekeeping force. But that's just a start toward fixing Darfur's problems--and preventing similar conflicts from erupting elsewhere. In the longer term, Darfur and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa need sensible land-use policies and careful water management. And as climate change shrinks the availability of arable land and natural resources, Africa will need the developed world to do its part to curb the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming...
...danger, or the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. The Center for American Progress reports that in 2001, the number of federally or state-funded Medicaid abortions was 81. Furthermore, 70,000 women a year die from abortion procedures around the world because of faulty and sub-standard medical conditions according to a 2006 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics report. The political infrastructure in place in America currently does not adequately allow women from lower-income households to have equal access to abortions as their wealthier counterparts. The consequences of such measures include later-term abortions...