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Drought-stricken Kenya is sitting on 250-trillion liters of groundwater With the world as thoroughly mapped and monitored as it is, it's easy to forget the Earth still harbors its fair share of secrets. Case in point: yesterday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization announced that Kenya's drought-striken Turkana County sits, rather ironically, atop a staggeringly huge reserve of subterranean water. Following an extensive groundwater mapping project that incorporated satellite observations, seismic information and remote sensing, five vast aquifers have been identified hiding beneath the country's arid northern region. Preliminary estimates put the aquifers' contents at roughly 250-trillion liters...

Barack Obama administration spending and projects in Kenya have become so voluminous that the U.S. Agency for International Development must hire more contractors to oversee endeavors other providers already carry out across the African nation.

So Joe Biden it is for Obama's vice-presidential pick. Biden, the bloviator, and man of a thousand words. Uhhhh, make that 50,000 words. He's abridged his acceptance speech from his hoped-for presidential acceptance speech of 200,000 words. Uhhhh, that would be one day or evening when I'd definitely want to be anyhere else. 50,000 words comes to 416.6 minutes at the conversation speaking rate of 120 words per minutes. Divide that by 60 and you get 6.94 hours. But then, you have to add in at least a hundred hoped-for standing ovations. That would bring his time at the podium...