African drought: 12 million face ‘fight for survival’

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By Rohit Kachroo, NBC News

WAJIR, Kenya – At first glance, the massive drought which has swept across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia appears to be a crisis caused entirely by nature.

As we traveled north through Kenya into one of the worst-hit areas, the lush green of [...]

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The TEPCO guys couldn’t find a good word for a concrete pump used to pour water in the storage pools, so they call it a “giraffe” in their reports:

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Westerwelle said Germany is set to send to the Fukushima plant more trucks nicknamed as “giraffe” that can inject water from a point of 70 meters high to help cool pools storing spent nuclear fuel at the site. The trucks are products of Putzmeister Group, a German machinery maker.

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Samuel

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Welch: Obama Move to the Center Has Been All Talk So Far

(CNBC) President Obama’s attempts to move to the political center have been more cosmetic than concrete, author and former General Electric CEO Jack Welch told CNBC.

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Jack Welch

Speaking as the president tries to find common ground with the new Republican-led House of Representatives, Welch said the supposed shift from the president’s liberal base hasn’t amounted to much as far as policy is concerned.

“The tack to the [...]

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