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...splendor. Cuneiform sources offer little evidence of what the city looked like, but classical accounts - in particular, by the 5th century Greek historian Herodotus - describe a city that extended for 14 miles (23 km) in each direction, divided in the middle by the mighty Euphrates, and fortified by five sun-dried mud-brick walls, each up to 23 ft. (7 m) thick. The walls guarded a spectacular inner city, whose grand streets ran parallel to the river. Between 1899 and 1917, German archeologists unearthed decorative elements that demonstrate the importance of Nebuchadnezzar's cosmic vision. Along Babylon's main thoroughfare...
...years ago Bent formed SunNight Solar to manufacture and distribute inexpensive solar-powered flashlights. His BOGO (for "Buy One, Give One"; buy one in the U.S., and SunNight sends one to Africa) lights were a perfect fit for sun-rich Africa, providing five hours of illumination - with energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) - after a 10-hour charge. Bent designed the flashlights himself - even making one model in pink, to discourage men from seizing the products from women. (They wouldn't want to be seen with the feminine-looking lights.) But he ran into a problem: unlike kerosene lamps, which...
...that was both simple and pervasive: the lack of artificial light. Many Africans lack access to regular electricity, leaving them at the mercy of expensive battery-powered flashlights, polluting kerosene lamps - or simply in the dark. No electric light may mean that a child can't study after the sun sets, or that young girls need to spend more time gathering firewood during the day, worsening deforestation and leaving them vulnerable to attack in refugee camps and other unstable areas. "It was just amazing to me that two billion people on the Earth don't have light at night," says...
...revisited if he was elected. The Obama campaign continues to call the Iraq plan “a rock solid commitment.” Earlier this month, retired four-star general Jack Keane, an advisor to Senator Clinton, made similar remarks to the New York Sun suggesting that Clinton would not immediately remove troops from Iraq either. Yoseph S. Ayele ’11, a student this past semester in Power’s freshman seminar “The United Nations, Past and Present: Can the UN Be Fixed? Is the UN the Problem?” said that...
...Pike County,” one of the most touching and hopeful on the album, Costello’s observation that “the sun broke through after years of darkness” shows that he has hopes for a better world. The female backing singers, with their “hoo, hoo” support, add additional levels of sweetness to a beautiful song...