Solar Impulse is the latest project of Swiss adventurer Roland Piccard. Ten years after crossing the globe in an air-balloon, Piccard hopes again to set a new trend — but this time in a waspish looking aircraft, powered solely by the sun. It’s not fast, but it’s clean. It has the wingspan ...
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Bertrand Piccard, Adventurer (French, 12 sec): "I don’t like being afraid but fear is sometimes the price to pay when you want to explore something new. You come out of your comfort zone, of course sometimes it’s a little frightening. But if you always stay within your comfort zone, then it’s ev...
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The prototype is a technological wonder: some 12,000 solar cells spread over its slender wings, fuelling four electric motors, while batteries allow it to keep going overnight.
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Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard set a record in 1999 circumnavigating the globe in a hot-air balloon — and now he’s set for an equally daunting challenge. This time his "Solar Impulse" airplane will operate solely on solar power.
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The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.
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25 million people have died from AIDS worldwide — more than the population of Australia. And 60 million people have been infected with the HIV virus since it first appeared almost 30 years ago. While the figures are sobering, there is good news. The rate of infection is slowing, down 17 pe...
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The site was launched in 2007. This year fear of swine flu is putting a damper on real pilgrimages to Mecca. So, this trip through cyberspace is an alternative for Muslims who want to postpone their Hajj experience for now.
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Authorities have already received hundreds of complaints about public health. Now ministers have been given just weeks to specify which measures to combat nitrate pollution will really work.
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Nouchi is based on French with grammar and vocabulary borrowed from regional languages. It takes liberally from English too . And it’s come a long way from its rough-and-ready beginnings.
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Divya Salaskar, who lost her brave policemen father in the attacks still fumes whenever she thinks of how some random militants came and shot innocent people. Mohammad Ajmal Amir, the only attacker who was captured alive, disclosed that the attackers were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan...
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Teenage pregnancies are common, like in the case of a girl, Cristina, who had her daughter at age 15. Conditions in the villages are extremely basic. Residents rely on nature for their needs. Sometimes, as this forest cemetery attests, nature can prove deadly.
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