Others - msbbc - 2010-09-03 17:12:09.

New cables tie West Africa closer to Internet

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This map provided by Main One Cable Co., shows the Main One undersea fiber-optic cable, which extended to Lagos, Nigeria this summer, bringing vastly greater communications capacity to West Africa. For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.


 

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Others - msbbc - 2010-09-03 17:12:09.

Plant and spiders compete for food

The carnivorous sundew and the wolf spider eat the same prey in the wild. Wolf spiders and carnivorous plants called sundews may compete with each other for food in the wild, a new study finds.


 

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Labor Day weekend for astronauts: Space toilet cleaning

American astronauts Doug Wheelock, Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Shannon Walker, all NASA spaceflyers and Expedition 24 flight engineers, pose for a photo with an American flag while aboard the International Space Station during their summer 2010 mission. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station won't be throwing any burgers on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they'll get the U.S. holiday off after they clean the space toilet.


 

U.S. - New York Times.

A Child Psychiatrist Responds

Dr. Mary Margaret Gleason answers some readers' questions.

 

U.S. - msbbc.

Key evidence being pulled up from BP spill site

The piece of equipment at the center of the investigation into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill was being retrieved from a mile below the sea, BP announced Friday.

U.S. - msbbc.

Balloon boy family moves to Florida from Colorado

The family at the center of the balloon boy hoax has moved out of the house where the fateful trip began, leaving Colorado for Florida.

 

 

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