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...rape victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip from Thailand into Myanmar to deliver care village by village, risking arrest if they are found...
...that the high-resolution satellite photographs could assist terrorists in mapping out potential targets, such as India's Parliament, the President's house and government offices in New Delhi?all of which can be clearly seen in Google's images. Facing similar complaints from the Netherlands, South Korea and Thailand, Google says that it takes government concerns "very seriously," but notes that all data it provides is already publicly available. That's little comfort for Kalam, who has called for stronger laws to govern the release of such sensitive materials...
...site subscription-based only is "an example of the insufficient investment" in U.S. readiness for a pandemic. Meanwhile, there are new reminders that birds--and viruses--don't respect borders. Croatia tested dead swans last week for the virulent H5N1 strain, Russia culled infected poultry, and a man in Thailand became the 67th human to die of avian...
...community and the veterinary services massively to respond," fao chief veterinary officer Joseph Domenech told Time. The fao suspects that wild birds could spread the lethal h5n1 virus - which can jump to humans and has killed at least 60 people in Asia so far, including a chicken farmer in Thailand last week - to domestic poultry in Africa. According to Ethiopian geneticist Tadelle Dessie, huge flocks migrating to lakes in the Rift Valley pose a threat. Where poultry is kept outdoors, the risks are great, he says. The fao fears wild birds wintering in Africa might bring the disease north...
...areas. A model linking solar panels with satellites is in the works. Ever since Boulder inaugurated its system last July, inquiries have flooded in. Last month the company won a contract to transmit air-pollution data in California's Death Valley. "We're getting e-mails from Afghanistan to Thailand," says Lyon. "They're asking, 'How soon can we get this...