By ANDREW RICE
GERSHOM MUGIRA COMES from a long line of cattle-keepers. His people, the Bahima, are thought to have migrated into the hilly grasslands of western Uganda more than a thousand years ago, alongside a hardy breed of longhorns known as the Ankole. For centuries, man and beast subsisted there in a tight symbiotic […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by admin
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By JON MOOALLEM
1. Cellphones in Hell
Americans threw out just shy of three million tons of household electronics in 2006. This so-called e-waste is the fastest-growing part of the municipal waste stream and, depending on your outlook, either an enormous problem or a bonanza. E-waste generally contains substances that, though safely sequestered during each […]
Posted on January 13th, 2008 by admin
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By BRIAN STELTER
OK!, the celebrity magazine, could not possibly have purchased all the attention it enjoyed in late December after it got the scoop that Jamie Lynn Spears, the younger and until then less sensational sister of the troubled pop queen Britney Spears, was three months pregnant.
Or could it? It is widely assumed within […]
Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by admin
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By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
“Information,” the apostles of cyberspace have been singing for more than a decade, “wants to be free.” Well, maybe your information does. But in late November, the social networking Web site Facebook discovered that many of its 58 million members don’t feel that way. On social networks, people can exchange photos, […]
Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by admin
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