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Sky-high race against a changing climate in the Amazon
2013-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ensia: When tropical ecologist Greg Asner glances down at the Amazon tree canopy from the window of his twin-engine plane, he sees more than indeterminate treetops punctuated by looping rivers and bright bursts of flowers. With a spectrometer mounted in a shiny gold canister behind him, he is fingerprinting individual tree species in an effort to draw the first large-scale biodiversity map of the worlds biggest expanse of tropical forest. Scientists know the Amazon is astoundingly diverse, but...
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The Great Portland Railroad Race - Friday, 29 November 2013 00:00
2013-11-30 00:35:51| Railroads - Topix.net
In 1869 a golden spike was driven into the ground at Promontory, Utah, signifying the linking of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad, and the completion of the first transcontinental railroad route.
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5 reasons corporates are exiting the new bank licence race
2013-11-29 04:49:31| Steel - Topix.net
They follow Value Industries promoted by Venugopal Dhoot, which had earlier withdrawn its application while Mahindra & Mahindra too had announced it was not applying for a licence as guidelines did not favour large non-banking financial companies like Mahindra Finance.
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Why the U.S. may lose the race to exascale
2013-11-25 12:58:12| InfoWorld: Top News
In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers -- exascale -- there is no guarantee the United States will finish first. But the stakes are high for the U.S. tech industry. Today, U.S. firms -- Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Intel, in particular -- dominate the global high-performance computing (HPC) market. On the Top 500 list, the worldwide ranking of the most powerful supercomputers, HP now has 39 percent of the systems, IBM 33 percent, and Cray nearly 10 percent.
Boeing leads Dubai order books race
2013-11-17 13:25:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
US plane maker Boeing, and European rival Airbus, see strong sales on the opening day of the Dubai Air Show.
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