This is awesome and great...very inspiring!! this article has great video,,,William has built three windmills in his yard using blue-gum trees and bicycle parts!

Self-taught, Mr. Kamkwamba took up windmill building after seeing a picture of one in an old textbook. He's currently working on a design for a windmill powerful enough to pump water from wells and provide lighting for Masitala, a cluster of buildings where about 60 families live.

Quoted: It is not just office workers who are taking their first steps into virtual worlds. So too are lawyers, as disputes in such environments spill over into real-world lawsuits. Such disputes often concern the trade in virtual goods and services, which are bought and sold for real money. In some countries lawsuits over virtual goods are already common. Unggi Yoon, a judge in the Suwon District Court in South Korea, estimates that Korean courts have heard nearly 300 cases of fraud and more than 60 relating to hacking in virtual game-worlds. Similar fights have broken out in American courts, too. So much for escapism.

awesome...I want to get this phone so I don't have tp type in AmNglish!

Quoted: The BBC's Elizabeth Blunt reports from Addis Ababa on the increasing popularity of mobile phones which permit text messages in Amharic.

Quoted: Harvard said that it would significantly increase the aid it offered students in the middle and upper middle classes.

When your bundle of joy comes with a price tag from a tiffany store or may be diamond stud earrings…well it will depend on your pocket! Guys get ready...not only engagement ring or anniversary presents...now you have to have the "push fund". The “push fund” will be used to buy a present for your significant other for the hours of labor she has gone through to delivery your baby! This is unnerving to me seeing how consumerism drives every aspect of our lives…IMHO!!! BTW your “push present” is lobbied by the jewelry industry and adored by the creative brain for coming up with the idea and who is ca$hing-in sitting at the top of the pyramid!

Quoted: Giving birth may be its own reward, but today many new mothers are likely to want some sort of tangible bonus as well.

I am skeptical about the newly proposed “fair tax” based on consumption and the implementation than the current flat rate. It is not clear cut how this will benefit the working class, when they consume almost all of their income...wouldn't they end up paying more.

I have not seen a lot discussion on this yet...hopefully soon!

Quoted: Unspinning the FairTax. We look at the numbers behind the numbers.

Quoted: I was thinking that someday my grandchildren might ask me (the way I once asked an elderly relative about watching color television in 1950), "What did a brand-new kind of life form look like the first time you saw it?" And I would have to say, like plain

Quoted: Mr. Pitt commissioned 13 architecture firms to help rebuild New Orleans’s impoverished Lower Ninth Ward.

Quoted: The five countries that make up the East African Community have agreed a plan that will gradually open their markets to the European Union (EU). ...