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Sailor Reflects On NASA Technology That Saved His LifeGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 27, 2010 Just seven days after setting sail for a tiny island off the eastern tip of Puerto Rico on Dec. 26, 2009, Missourian Dennis Clements thought his life was over; his crippled 34-foot Fiberglas sailboat - buffeted for four days by gale-force winds and high seas - had capsized, tossing him into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. "At one point, I saw the mast pointed straight down to the bottom of sea, and the boat continued to roll," he said. "I was shaken loose somewhere underwater ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) May 26, 2010Three US senators on Wednesday unveiled a bill to clear away hurdles to citizenship for roughly 1,000 Haitian orphans whose adoptions by US parents were rushed because of a January earthquake. US and Haitian authorities cleared the children to join their adoptive parents after the disaster. But without the complete paperwork necessary to finalize their adoptions, a roadblock has been raised ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) May 26, 2010Baghdad said on Wednesday it will close down state-owned Iraqi Airways in the face of a decades-old financial dispute with Kuwait that prompted the seizure of an aircraft last month. The sudden move comes a day after the airline announced it was dropping its services to Sweden and Britain over the row with Kuwait, but it was not immediately clear if a new company would be formed to take its ... more  
Singapore (AFP) May 26, 2010Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer defended the company's presence in China on Wednesday, saying it was more helpful in easing censorship than the tougher approach of rival Google. Ballmer said that while he respected Google's decision not to bow to censorship in China, Microsoft believed it was more productive to engage Beijing in dialogue rather than take on a country's legal system. ... more |
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China to take over South African miner in 877 million dollar dealJohannesburg (AFP) May 26, 2010 China is set to invest 877 million dollars to take control of a small South African mining company and to build a new platinum mine in the country, a spokesman said Wednesday. A term sheet for the deal was signed Friday and if it goes through it would be China's second-largest investment in South Africa, after it ploughed 5.5 billion dollars into Standard Bank nearly three years ago. China is the number one investor in Africa and last year became South Africa's biggest trade partner. The lat ... read more |
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