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...action should lead to war." It's easy to understand Egypt's motives: the Nile is a lifeline for the country's 74 million people, over 90% of whom live along a thin strip of fertile land that hugs the river's banks. The Nile also feeds a vast network of Egyptian irrigation canals that nourish the plots of peasant farmers such as Mohammed Sorour, 43, father of seven. "All the time, we have water," smiles Sorour, who plants molokhiyya, a leafy vegetable Egyptians cook into a stew, on the east bank of the river near El Saff...
...from new power production because most of the electricity would be used in cities, not in rural areas. Environmentalists are also skeptical that the ambitious integrated scheme would ever work. "It's pie-in-the-sky stuff," says Lori Pottinger, director of the Africa program at the International Rivers Network (IRN), an environmental group based in California. "It assumes that a lot of things are going to go very well, and history shows us with big projects like these, big dams, that it won't." Exhibit A for both sides of the debate is the unbuilt Bujagali Dam in Uganda...
...setup can be tricky - users have to tie the device into an Internet router as well as into a TV set-top box, and they have to download software. And Slingbox makes the rights to programming trickier still. Paul Whitehead, head of business development for British commercial TV network Channel 4, notes that when the network acquires rights to air a program such as The Sopranos, the agreement often covers Britain only. So is a Channel 4 viewer legally entitled to beam a Sopranos episode to another country? Studios that supply Channel 4 "absolutely are concerned" that devices like Slingbox...
...employee allegedly admitted some form of unauthorized disclosure could accelerate the normally lengthy process of determining whether this specific case will be formally investigated or prosecuted. It could also be folded into the existing overall investigation into who may have leaked the story about the CIA's secret detention network. "There is an open investigation into that case," one U.S. official confirmed...
...come together the way you think they do.” But will the average viewer want to solve crime along with detectives, or would he rather turn to the “CSI” franchise or one of its many other spin-offs? The network put the show to the test, and the results were surprising. According to Baum, testing episodes in a “dead average” audience of 100 viewers and registering their every response from behind glass was an “Orwellian experience,” but demonstrated that audience members were...