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According to local lore, Portuguese travelers as far back as the late 19th century suspected that oil might lie beneath parts of East Africa after noticing a thick, greasy sediment wash up on the shores of Mozambique. More interested in finding cheap labor, though, the explorers had little use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is East Africa the Next Frontier for Oil? | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...Much of East Africa's hopes are focused on a fault line running from Somalia to Madagascar known as the Davie Fracture Zone. It's there that Bertagne's analysis - using Cold War-era sea-floor mapping originally intended for use by Soviet submarines - has prompted speculation about oil deposits rivaling those of the North Sea or Middle East. There's still a lot that's unknown: North Africa has seen 20,000 wells sunk over the past few decades, while drillers have sunk 14,000 wells in and off West Africa. In East Africa, the total is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is East Africa the Next Frontier for Oil? | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...book you use milk as an example. When you walk into a corner store and you buy a gallon of milk, you hand your money over to the storekeeper and you walk away. You're trusting in the integrity of the storekeeper to deliver milk [that] is safe and good. So that's just a basic trust in integrity. But if you start peeling back the layers off that transaction you can see there are far more relationships of integrity and trust needed to bring that milk to you. You can start with the farmer who needs to look after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Trust Creates Wealth | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...Njoy yor vzit 2 d hospital. I hOp dey mAk U beta so we cn fck U up agen,” reads a typical one. It seems that Lelic wants to prove that he understands the workings of cyber-bullying and all the newfangled technology kids use, but he doesn’t seem to realize that true texting-speak involves much more than the removal of as many letters as possible...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lelic’s ‘Cuts’ Relies on Tired Tropes | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

Through Harvard grants, many students use their thesis as a way of traveling and studying abroad. While exploring underground archives or interviewing the local populations in the Chinese countryside, Harvard students get a University-subsized glimpse of life outside of Cambridge...

Author: By Monica M. Dodge, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: End Draws Near for Senior Theses | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

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