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...Summer to reach the village of Nyarukamba in western Uganda, visitors have to clamber up a thin, almost vertical dirt track. It's not the kind of place you would expect to find subsistence farmers surfing the Web with wi-fi computers or making voip (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing - thanks to a wireless, solar-powered communications system installed in the Ruwenzori mountains by Inveneo, a San Francisco nonprofit. Inveneo was launched in 2004 by three Silicon Valley veterans - Mark Summer, 36; Kristin Peterson...
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...indicative of the scale of Saddam's brutality that there are some in Dujail who believe the current bloodshed is preferable to what preceded it. "Of course, now it is much better," says Ali, speaking by phone from Dujail. "Saddam's terrorism would go on forever if he were still in power." Ali's brother Ahmed, witness No. 1 in the Saddam trial, doesn't know when he will leave the Green Zone or what awaits him if he does. But after spending his high school years in prison and losing most of his brothers, he says he is willing...
...want consultants crawling through your company like ants with a big bill attached," he says."Companies like to hire a subject-matter expert." Teaching people to be more likable in the workplace--improving their "emotional talent"--is one of Sanders' niches. For each client, he consults by phone for several months, then presents one or more custom-tailored speeches with e-mail follow-up. "I speak with an author's credibility and give specific advice," he says...
...though, Democrats are the ones playing catch-up when it comes to the mechanics of Election Day. Every Monday, überstrategist Karl Rove and Republican Party officials on Capitol Hill get spreadsheets tallying the numbers of voters registered, volunteers recruited, doors knocked on and phone numbers dialed for 40 House campaigns and a dozen Senate races. Over the next few weeks, the party will begin flying experienced paid and volunteer workers into states for the final push. The Senate Republicans' campaign committee calls its agents special teams, led by marshals, all in the service of the partywide effort known...