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Coffee prices on the rise
So, a 44% rise in wholesale coffee prices over the course of the summer. Guess that explains why coffee prices were up at the grocery store last week about 50% over what I'd recalled paying a while back. In related news, Starbucks is hiking prices because their drinks were just too cheap.
Mobile phones in tough places: Reaching the world’s unconnected will require more adventurous carriers
Crazy... in certain remote parts of the world it seems that cell towers have been powered by generators run using fuel transported into the region on the backs of donkeys.
The Voters: Men Are Fuming, Women Despairing
At large men and women have different voting patterns. How does that impact elections?
Gay Saudi diplomat fears for life?
I like the sentence at the end: "Is this a political story? Yes. Is it a cultural story? Yes. Is it a religion story? Yes, of course. Deal with it."