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Japan's 'space yacht' starts sailingTokyo (AFP) June 11, 2010 Japan said Friday its kite-shaped "space yacht", designed to float through space using only the power of the sun, successfully started sailing with solar power generation. A Japanese rocket last month launched the experimental "Ikaros" - Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun - designed to be propelled by the pressure of sunlight particles. The technology could eventually enable space travel without fuel, as long as there is sunlight. Similar to an ocean yacht pushed ... read more |
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Theodore, Alabama (AFP) June 14, 2010President Barack Obama said he hoped for an outline deal with BP by Wednesday on a multi-billion dollar fund for oil disaster victims and vowed to use all his power to heal the Gulf coast. Obama lunched with locals, talked up tourism and seafood industries and checked on disaster mitigation efforts on his fourth trip to the region, on the eve of his Oval Office address on America's worst env ... more 
New York (AFP) June 14, 2010US child activists made an impassioned plea Monday for the 90-year-old former boss of Union Carbide to help victims of the deadliest ever industrial disaster in Bhopal, India. The Indian government said last week the case against the chemical group's former CEO, Warren Anderson, was still open amid outrage over the lenient sentencing of some of the culprits. Dow Chemical purchased Union ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2010A NASA-led research team has successfully demonstrated for the first time elements of a prototype tsunami prediction system that quickly and accurately assesses large earthquakes and estimates the size of resulting tsunamis. After the magnitude 8.8 Chilean earthquake on Feb. 27, a team led by Y. Tony Song of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used real-time data from the ... more |
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Walker's World: The euro makes enemiesParis (UPI) Jun 14, 2010 Relations between the economic policy-makers of Europe and the United States are even worse in private than they appear to be in public, as Europe heads for massive spending cuts and austerity while the United States keeps trying to stimulate growth. Well-placed European sources say last weekend's meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers saw a strident row between U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank. It began when Geithner m ... read more |
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