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							  John Stanmeyer 
                          VII / National Geographic 
                             
                              "Signal"   
							Impoverished African migrants crowd the night shore of Djibouti city, trying to capture inexpensive cell signals from neighboring Somalia; a tenuous link to relatives abroad. For more than 60,000 years our species has been relying on such intimate social connections to spread across the Earth. 
							
  						
							 
														 						
  						
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