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Waangari Maathai: A Woman of Firsts
	In A Woman of Firsts, Katrina vanden Heuvel profiles Waangari Maathai, the Kenyan woman who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize. Maathai is the first woman in eastern and central Africa to earn a doctorate, the first female professor at the University of Nairobi, and now, the first African woman to win the Peace Prize. Posted: 3/8/05; 11:52:54 AM #

Loband

I met a fellow from Aidworld at the SANGONeT conference last week. They just launched a service called Loband that is targeted for communities and organizations with serious bandwidth constraints. It's a kind of proxy system that offers some excellent features for restricting the bandwidth used by web browsing. It requires no software installation, so I suggest you check it out. Posted: 3/8/05; 11:49:20 AM #