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Google to bankroll, build wireless networks across Africa -WSJ
ReutersMay 24 (Reuters) - Google Inc intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on...Tags: Media Industry, The Wall Street Journal, Africa, Google Inc.
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Carpet: It's in the bag
This post has a correction. See bottom of article for details.Rugs have been appearing on shoulders and wrists and backs, carried as colorful, one-of-a-kind purses and handbags. These modern carpetbags use kilim (flat weave), dhurries (hand-woven, vegetable-dyed cotton), suzani (embroidered cotton or silk) and...Tags: Turkey
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The vagabonds: No home, just travel
Working as a night-life photographer had its perks, but Matthew Karsten was tired of life in South Florida. Looking at a friend's pictures from a trip through Southeast Asia, Karsten yearned for a bigger world. So he set out to discover it. There are...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, University of California, Berkeley, Trips and Vacations, Thailand, Rentals
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Films and Lectures
HAWAII Movie Filmmaker Catherine Bauknight will present "Hawaii: A Voice for Sovereignty," a documentary that raises awareness of issues that threaten the ancient and environmentally sustainable culture of native Hawaiians. When, where: 7:30 p.m....Tags: Trips and Vacations, Vietnam
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Survey: Many Muslims want sharia, but differ on what that means
In Afghanistan, Iraq and many other countries across the globe, most Muslims support making sharia, or Islamic law, the official law of the land, according to a sweeping survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. But sharia means different...
Tags: Egypt, Indonesia, Islam, Iraq, Africa
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Go away with Kevin Olusola
The son of a Nigerian psychiatrist and a Grenadian nurse, Kevin Olusola enrolled at Yale University intending to pursue a medical career. But the classically trained cellist and innovative beatboxer couldn't resist entering the "Celebrate and...
Tags: Japan, Apple iPad, China, Brazil, Music
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Vietnam veterans to be recognized during welcome-home day in The Villages
Those of us of a certain age remember the Vietnam War. Many served in Vietnam or had brothers or sons who did. Others, like me, came home from school and watched it on television every day on the news. Vietnam was the first war to come into the American...
Tags: Protest, Japan, U.S. Army, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Demonstration
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Stakes are huge in Malaysian election
NEW DELHI — Malaysia faces its most significant election in decades Sunday, as voters choose between the longtime ruling coalition touting its steady hand and an untested opposition alliance promising economic and political reforms. The stakes are...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Islam, Elections, Productivity, Civil and Public Service
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Bring my son, and everyone else's, home from Afghanistan
My soldier son called last month to wish his mother and me a happy Thanksgiving. My iPhone buzzed and there he was, sitting in a gun tower, his smiling face bathed in gauzy infrared light, an M249 machine gun propped at the ready behind him. For...
Tags: NATO, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Terrorism, Taliban, Holidays
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Stanley Karnow dies at 87; author of epic Vietnam history
Stanley Karnow, an award-winning author and journalist who combined insightful reporting with personal accounts and historical sweep in books on the Vietnam War and the Philippines and the critically acclaimed public television series that accompanied the...Tags: Manila (Philippines), Christian Dior, PBS (tv network), Journalism, China
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From Afghanistan to Montana: War vets find solace fly-fishing in a new documentary
In the affecting new documentary "Not Yet Begun to Fight," a sound engineer is caught on film asking for a cigarette from one of the film's subjects, a Marine corporal from Evansville, Ind., named Erik Goodge, who lost an eye when he was wounded in...
Tags: Movies, Chicago Fire (tv program), Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Injuries and Wounds, Circumstance (movie)
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