Re-Building the Wright Flyer

Isaac-Lew writes: "Several teams are trying to build a working replica of the first Wright Brothers' airplane." As the article says, "The catch is: Each team wants its plane to fly more or less as the Wrights' did." The only problem with that is that as Orville Wright put it, their plane was "exceedingly erratic," so the recreators have made some slight concessions to safety.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Bush in Verbal Deflation - Devaluation Debacle

[Anonymous Coward]

Bush in Verbal Japan Deflation - Devaluation Debacle
By REUTERS

Filed at 7:15 a.m. ET

TOKYO (Reuters) - President Bush's wayward way with words sent financial markets wobbling on Monday when he mixed up deflation and devaluation.

Traders couldn't believe their ears when Bush relayed to a news conference that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, outlining his plans to revive Japan's economy, had placed equal emphasis in their talks on banks' non-performing loans, ``the devaluation issue'' and regulatory reform.

The yen's value is an extremely touchy subject for Japan's Asian neighbors and U.S. manufacturers, who suspect that Tokyo is willing to tolerate a cheaper currency as a way of spurring exports and stoking a little bit of inflation.

Most traders doubted Koizumi would have publicly mused about devaluation and assumed that Bush, famous for gaffes such as a pledge to ``put food on your family,'' had meant to say ``the deflation issue.''

But some dealers decided not to take the risk and briefly pushed the yen down to 132.80 per dollar from 132.55.

White House officials quickly clarified that Bush and Koizumi had indeed discussed deflation and the official transcript of the news conference also set the record straight in a footnote.

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[Mike Mentalist]

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