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Haitians wary of US military reductionPort-Au-Prince (AFP) March 9, 2010 A US Navy hospital ship was recalled from Haiti Tuesday as the US military cut its emergency deployment to the quake-hit nation, where aid efforts are now turning to reconstruction. The USNS Comfort, which had been anchored off Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince for the past seven weeks, was to leave Wednesday for its base in Baltimore, Maryland, US officials in Haiti and in the US Defense Department's Southern Command said. More than a quarter of the 11,000 US service personnel currently in and off ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2010Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have obtained the first recordings of brain-cell activity in an actively flying fruit fly. The work-by Michael Dickinson, the Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering, with postdoctoral scholars Gaby Maimon and Andrew Straw-suggests that at least part of the brain of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) "is in ... more  
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2010Last month, a baseball-sized meteorite punched through the roof of a doctor's office in Lorton, Virginia, scattering insulation and ripping a hole in the carpet. What if it had been larger - much larger - and what if we knew in advance that it was coming? This month, The Planetary Society calls attention to the dangers our planet faces from near-Earth objects (NEOs) through announcement of ... more  
Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2010The White House warned Friday that the situation in Haiti one month after an earthquake devastated the capital "remains dire" ahead of potentially disastrous rains in the coming months. "The situation remains dire... the need for food, shelter, medical supplies and basic security is enormous, and the coming rainy season will pose new challenges," press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statem ... more |
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Google to trial ultra high-speed broadband networksNew York (AFP) Feb 10, 2010 Google announced plans Wednesday to build experimental ultra high-speed broadband networks that would deliver Internet speeds 100 times faster than those of today to up to half a million Americans. The Web search and advertising giant said the envisioned one gigabit per second speeds would allow to stream 3-D medical imaging over the Web or download a high-definition, full-length movie in less than five minutes. Google's project complements US President Barack Obama's pledge to bring broadband t ... read more |
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