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Soyuz 100 Times More Reliable Than ShuttleMoscow, Russia (Pravda) Feb 08, 2010 Richard Garriott, a videogame developer, who once boarded Russia's Soyuz rocket for a space flight said that the Russian-made ship was much more reliable than its foreign analogues. Garriott, whose father is a former NASA astronaut, paid $30 million for a flight to the iInternational Space station. He said in a televised conference that Soyuz was 100 times more a reliable spacecraft than USA's shuttles. On October 24, 2008, Russian cosmonauts, ISS Crew 17 Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, sp ... read more |
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Jakarta (AFP) Feb 7, 2010Despite the desolation wrought by last month's earthquake, Haiti can salvage hope for the future by looking at how the Indonesian province of Aceh rebuilt after the equally devastating 2004 tsunami. From the flattened streets of the capital Port-au-Prince to the death toll of around 200,000, the situation in Haiti bears many similarities to the horrors experienced by Aceh after its quake-tri ... more
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 6, 2010The cockfighting must go on, even after earthquakes, so the roosters have been bathed, their claws sharpened, and they wait in cages in the red-carpeted ring, the crowd anxious and gripping cash. The referee has weighed them and announced their names - Doudou versus Zo La Plaine - and now he wants a moment of silence for prayer. Everyone stands, heads bowed. After a couple minutes, the ... more
Washington (AFP) Feb 7, 2010Even before cataclysm struck, Haiti was so impoverished and vulnerable that the term "rebuilding" could be considered optimistic. The small Caribbean nation relied on foreign aid to feed its population of nearly 10 million, half of them illiterate and half are under age 18. The near-complete deforestation of its hilly terrain made it especially vulnerable to the hurricanes that regularly swe ... more |
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France slims jets price in Brazil bidBrasilia, Brazil (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 Brazil looks set to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets from France after its maker, Dassault, moved to skim $2 billion off the price. The newspaper Folha de S. Paolo reported that the deal was now down to $10.2 billion - including $6.2 billion for the jets themselves and $4 billion for maintenance and repairs provided for the next decade. News of the price cut surfaced following a brief stop-over that Defense Minister Nelson Jobim paid to Paris while en route to Israel. There was no immedi ... read more |
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