Heavy snow kills children, destroys houses in Afghanistan

KABUL, 15 February 2009 (IRIN) - At least 12 people, including six children, were killed and tens of houses were damaged by heavy snow in Herat and Ghor provinces over the past four days, according to Afghanistan’s National Disasters Management Authority (ANDMA). Dozens of livestock perished in the cold weather.

Did Ed Markey give us Google, eBay, Amazon and YouTube?

[Markey] What I use as an analogy is the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Up until then not one single home had broadband access. My goal in that act was to create the incentives for the deployment of broadband that could then lead—because of that huge additional capacity that was constructed—to the creation of thousands of other companies that could use that broadband capacity. I didn't know the names of the companies would be Google, eBay, Amazon, YouTube and thousands of others that created 3 to 5 million new jobs in America. But 10 years later people look back at the black rotary phone era as ancient history, but it's not that long ago. And I think we can do that same thing here.