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Mubarak's Dream Remains Just That In Egypt's Desert

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A sign on undeveloped land welcomes visitors to "New Toshka City." Toshka was to be a new settlement along the Upper Nile Valley, complete with enough jobs and infrastructure to support the relocation of 20 million Egyptians from polluted and over-crowded cities.

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An empty water canal at Sheikh Zayed, near Toshka. Fifteen years after the project's inception, there are just 21,000 hectares of farmland, no schools or hospitals have been built, and the food produced is mainly for export to benefit private landholders.

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Fishing boat captain Adel Mohamed Hussein (right), at Sheikh Zayed Canal, is one of the few Egyptians who has benefited from the Toshka project.

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Engineer Mamduh Diab, chief of agricultural affairs for the South Valley Company, stands among grapevines on the company's land.

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Wheat grows on South Valley Company's land.

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Laborers pull weeds from watermelon fields on South Valley Company land in Toshka.

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Water pumped from Lake Nasser cascades down an irrigation canal to crops on South Valley Company land.

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Yasmine, 16, prunes green grapes at Saudi-owned KADCO.

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An industrial-sized sprinkler waters alfalfa plants at Saudi-owned Kingdom Agricultural Development Company (KADCO).

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Khaled Mohamed tills the soil after a wheat harvest at KADCO.

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Critics say Egypt lacks the means to transport large quantities of wheat and other produce from Toshka to the rest of the country.

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Mohamed Abdul Fattah is secretary-general for the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Aswan, Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood is adamantly opposed to Toshka and other projects that it links to the excesses of former President Hosni Mubarak.

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Ibrahim Dahrouk, a crop manager at Saudi-owned Kingdom Agricultural Development Company in Toshka, says the farm provides hundreds of jobs to local residents, including women. The wages of $6 to $9 a day are considered good for the region.

By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Originally published on Tue July 10, 2012 7:57 am

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In the middle of southern Egypt's windy desert, wheat fields stretch as far as the eye can see on a 24,000-acre farm. It's part of a grandiose project called Toshka that was dreamed up 15 years ago by the government of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's authoritarian leader who ruled the country for three decades before being ousted last year.

1:03 am

Tue July 10, 2012

Judge: Samsung's Galaxy Tab Not As 'Cool' As iPad

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Samsung won a victory Monday in its global patent war with Apple. The British judge said Samsung's Galaxy Tab (right) is "not as cool" as the iPad (left).

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Originally published on Tue July 10, 2012 1:09 pm

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Samsung won a victory in Britain on Monday in its global patent war with Apple over the designs for its tablet computers.

A British judge ruled Samsung's Galaxy Tablets do not infringe on any of Apple's designs for the iPad.

Samsung, however, may have mixed feelings about this decision.

According to Judge Colin Birss, Samsung's Galaxy tablets are not cool enough to be confused with the iPad or violate any of Apple's design patents.

The ruling was a legal victory for Samsung, but if this were a consumer review, it would have been a bloodbath.

6:34 am

Mon July 9, 2012

Cherry Festival Crowns New Pit-Spitting Champ

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RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. Ronn Matt told the Chicago Tribune that his mother used to frown on his habit of spitting cherry pits. But now he's a champion. Over the weekend in Michigan, Matt managed to unseat two spitting dynasties, families who had won for the last 20 years the International Cherry Pit spitting contest. He won by spitting a pit 69 feet. Impressive but far short of the world record of 93 and a half feet. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.

Asia

6:22 am

Mon July 9, 2012

Disney Characters Frolick On North Korean Stage

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Disney says nobody in North Korea asked permission to use Mickey and Minnie and some of the company's other characters. A concert for the country's new leader Jim Jong Un featured the Disney stars.

Economy

4:28 am

Mon July 9, 2012

Charity Collects Donations To Buy Greek Bonds

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Many businesses in the town of Oia, on the northern tip of Santorini, are struggling to make ends meet following a drop in tourism.

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Peter Nomikos, who founded the charity Greece Debt Free about two weeks ago, sits outside the Santozeum, a family museum in Thira town, Santorini.

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Originally published on Mon July 9, 2012 5:22 pm

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A young shipping heir whose family helped turn the Greek island of Santorini into a tourist hot spot is trying to help Greece dig out of its massive debt by asking average Greeks to chip in.

Peter Nomikos hopes to build a social movement beginning with a charity he launched about two weeks ago called Greece Debt Free, which collects donations to buy Greek bonds. On Santorini, the Cycladic island of whitewashed homes, residents say they'd like help with their benefactor's charity — but they can't even pay their own bills.

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