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May 22, 2007
FORD BLOWN AWAY : GlobalGiants.com
Photo: LONDON, May 22, 2007. Blown Away ... .Balloons carry full-sized cars over the rooftops of London in the filming of Ford's new Mondeo ad. The long format ad will premiere across most European countries during the UEFA Champions League final on May 23rd. 1400 balloons and 80 cylinders of helium were used while shooting the film. (FORD) |GlobalGiants.com|
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U.S. Gas Prices Hit Record High for 10th Day in a Row - $3.20/Gallon : GlobalGiants.com
Photo: A gas pump handle is seen at an Exxon gas station in Portland, Oregon April 26, 2007. Exxon Mobil Corp said on Thursday its first-quarter earnings rose over 10 percent as higher profits from its refining and chemical units outweighed lower oil and gas prices. REUTERS/Richard Clement |GlobalGiants.com|
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Dassault Launches the New Falcon 2000LX : GlobalGiants.com
Geneva, Switzerland, May 22, 2007 - Today, at the 7th Annual EBACE Convention, Dassault announced a new addition to the Falcon family of business jets, the Falcon 2000LX. Based on the popular Falcon 2000EX, the 2000LX will feature a range of 4,000 nautical miles at Mach .80 and a best-in-class climb speed to 41,000 feet in just 18 minutes. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Ricoh Sustainable Development Award Presented to Three Students at Intel ISEF 2007 Special Awards Ceremony : GlobalGiants.com
Photo: Ricoh Sustainable Development Award winners (from L to R) Danielle Lent, Emily Levine and DJ Ray Horton pose with Robert Whitehouse, director, Environmental Management and Product Compliance, Ricoh Americas Corporation, at a special awards ceremony at Intel ISEF 2007.
Ricoh Americas Corporation presented three high school students with the Ricoh Sustainable Development Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) 2007 hosted by Agilent Technologies during a special awards ceremony in Albuquerque on Thursday night. The students will share a $50,000 scholarship from Ricoh Americas Corporation.
The three students who received top honors at the ceremony were DJ Ray Horton of Hotchkiss High School in Hotchkiss, Colorado, for his four year study on the biological control of a common corn crop parasite and Emily Levine and Danielle Lent of Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett, New York, for their research on optimizing recycled polymer blends using supercritical carbon dioxide.
The Intel ISEF is the world's largest pre-college celebration of science and is held every year in May. Intel ISEF brings together over 1,500 students from around the world to compete for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, and scientific field trips. This year's event was held at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Russian, Croatian and US High School Programmers Win TopCoder Championship at Purdue University : GlobalGiants.com
First World Championship for TopCoder High School Members Sees Eastern Europe Prevail in Individual and Team Tournaments.
Photo: TopCoder High School Champion Yury Petrov of Saint Petersburg. (Topcoder, Inc.)
Photo: Team V. Gimnazija of Zagreb, Croatia. (PRNewsFoto/Topcoder, Inc.)
TopCoder(R), Inc., a leading online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software developer, has announced the winners in the first ever TopCoder High School global programming tournament hosted by Purdue University on May 19th 2007. Forty-seven elite competitors from the U.S., China, Russian Federation, Australia, Poland, Romania, Kazakhstan, Canada, Bulgaria, Croatia and the Ukraine representing themselves, their schools and their countries competed in a challenging contest of computing skills for a share of $50,000 in scholarship awards.
Purdue University was founded in 1869 and is one of the largest four-year universities in the United States. More than 38,000 students from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, three territories, residents abroad, and 126 foreign nations study at the West Lafayette campus, and more than 30,000 are enrolled at other campuses and locations. |GlobalGiants.com|
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