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...reports are truly shocking: women raped, villages burned, children slaughtered. The violence has already left an estimated 30,000 dead—approximately 1000 individuals are currently being killed each week—and displaced nearly a million Africans. A lucky hundred thousand refugees have managed to flee into neighboring Chad—itself one of the world’s poorest nations—where the United Nations is currently rushing to settle them in camps before the May wet season makes vehicle transportation all but impossible. But another 700,000 refugees are still trapped in Darfar where they...
field meter," Edwards says. "The only thing I know for sure is that it contained more than 1,250 p.p.b. lead." Five thousand parts per billion is classified as hazardous; a city's water supply is considered unsafe if lead levels in more than 10% of tested samples exceed 15 p.p.b. Worried that there was a widespread problem, Edwards--one of the world's leading authorities on corrosion in home plumbing systems--launched an investigation. He was the right man for the job because leaching of lead into drinking water is one of the major consequences of corroded pipes. Says...
...Appealing for Justice The powerful photographs with the article "Nothing Left to Lose," on Chinese petitioners who travel to Beijing in search of government redress for injustices, spoke volumes [March 1]. Who could argue against the adage that a skillfully taken and meaningful picture is worth a thousand words? The aftermath of the Cultural Revolution left many Chinese utterly distrustful of their mighty Communist Party officials. Most victims would just swallow the bitter pills of injustice, recognizing that their protests would fall on deaf ears and their efforts would be futile. In fact, these petitioners had hardly any official channels...
...million worldwide registered users talking to one another. If you're a programmer in Paris with a technical problem, you can find a friend of a friend in Seattle who can help - and maybe provide a job lead. Already 1.4 million have signed on, though only a few thousand have coughed up the $25 registration fee plus $3-per-month charge. Networking sites are still primarily a U.S. phenomenon, but Monster.com has 3 million registered users in 15 European countries. Will they pay up? CEO Jeffrey Taylor thinks so: ?Unlike Friendster, we're providing a network with a purpose...
...more enthusiastic about fixing the results, threatening punishment for not getting to the polls and offering prizes to increase voter turnout and get the 50 percent quorum required to make Putin’s victory official. Workers at polling places were a little more likely to forge a couple thousand votes for Putin than the last time he was running for the top job—as they did in Moscow and elsewhere...