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Concrete Phase Of Runway Begins At Spaceport AmericaUpham NM (SPX) Feb 17, 2010 The first batch of concrete was poured Thursday, February 11, marking the start of the final concrete finish phase of the runway construction at Spaceport America, the world's first purposebuilt commercial spaceport. The runway project, which began in August 2009, is expected to be completed this summer, according to the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA). The multi-layered runway is made up of 24 inches of prepared subgrade with the top six inches being a soil-cement mix foundation, followed b ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Feb 16, 2010Rebuilding Haiti could cost 14 billion dollars, making last month's quake the most destructive natural disaster in modern history, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) said Tuesday. The stark assessment came after a 7.0-magnitude-quake leveled parts of the Caribbean nation of nine million, already the poorest in the Americas before the disaster. The quake killed at least 217,000 people ... more 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 16, 2010In Haiti's slums, gang leaders who escaped from prison in January's earthquake are trying to wrest back control of their turf, sparking a bloody power struggle that the UN fears could destabilize the country. UN troops are beefing up operations in Port-au-Prince after 5,000 prisoners escaped from jail on January 12, as fears grow that the convicts are swelling the ranks of the country's once ... more 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 15, 2010A school partially collapsed in north Haiti on Monday after a mudslide, killing four children and bringing further catastrophe to a country already devastated by last month's massive earthquake. The collapse occurred in Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second city located along the Atlantic Coast that was largely unaffected by the quake, which left the capital Port-au-Prince in ruins, a civil protection ... more |
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Sony to stop selling ultra-thin organic TV in JapanTokyo (AFP) Feb 16, 2010 Sony said Tuesday it would stop selling in Japan an ultra-thin television using organic materials because of sluggish demand, in a setback to its efforts to regain a reputation for innovation. The Japanese giant will halt domestic shipments of organic light emitting diode (OLED) TVs by the end of March, said company spokeswoman Ryoko Takagi. Sony was the first company in the world to commercially launch a television using the technology in 2007. By sandwiching a very thin layer of organic ma ... read more |
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