Names have power, so let us speak of hers. Her name is Sharbat Gula, and she is Pashtun, that most warlike of Afghan tribes. It is said of the Pashtun that they are only at peace when they are at war, and her eyes—then and now—burn with ferocity. She is 28, perhaps 29, or even 30. No one, not even she, knows for sure. Stories shift like sand in a place where no records exist. Time and hardship have erased her youth. Her skin looks like leather. The geometry of her jaw has softened. The eyes still glare; that has not softened.
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After expanding across Earth, the Internet is now set to spread into outer space to reach parts no network has gone before, one of its co-creators predicted Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT
Vinton Cerf said the proposed “interplanetary” Internet would allow people an ability “to access information and to control experiments taking place far away” from Earth.
Expanding into the solar system would bring new rules and regulations too, he told an annual Seoul forum, saying he and other experts were working on a set of standards designed to guide space-era Internet communications.
“Finally, the Internet can take us where no network has gone before,” said Cerf, who is Google’s vice president and chief internet evangelist,
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Britain prepared Tuesday to begin the switchover from analogue to digital television broadcasting, with a seaside town the first to make the move. ADVERTISEMENT
The BBC2 channel’s analogue signal was to be switched off from around 2:00 am (0100 GMT) Wednesday in the northwest English resort of Whitehaven, affecting 25,000 households. The other analogue channels will be switched off on November 14.
Region by region, Britain is switching to digital broadcasting, due to be completed by 2012.
Every television set must be connected to satellite, cable or broadband transmissions, though the majority are already signed up to such services
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