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We reach Sugar Loaf and take a car suspended by cables to a lower peak, called Morro da Urca. It's a pretty exotic name, I decide, for a place that has the cheesy Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone" playing on the television in the bar next...
A decade of fighting has left Mogadishu in ruins. Gangs steal power lines, telephone cables and streetlights. Like vultures picking at the bones of a dead animal, men have dug up the pipelines at the old oil refinery, carrying them away to sell. Electricity now comes from small generators; water...
For the past two weeks, workers have been digging up portions of Plympton Street in order to lay four new electrical cables to provide extra power to the building at 1 Bow St., the former home of the Bow and Arrow Pub.
Workers have had to dig deep ditches under the sidewalk to install the cables--a process which has forced them to replace sidewalk bricks with asphalt covering.
WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF US: The Nobel committee decided this was the year to honor the world of information technology. Alferov and Kroemer's semiconductors allow us to transmit information over fiber-optical cables, satellites and cell phones. Kilby played a key role in the development of...