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GECF: more than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped

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Senturin made his remarks during the 25 th Oil & Gas of Turkmenistan Conference. Important projects in the offing include the Turkmenistan-China pipeline enhancement, TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India), and others. —Secretary General Sentyurin.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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telephone companies. He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. Fraser held several leadership positions at the company during his 30 years there. In 1994 he became associate vice president for the company’s information science research department.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg. To get some advice about how to run the company and possibly win some money, he entered the bionic hand into the Cozad New Venture Challenge at the University of Illinois. Akhtar working on the prosthetic hand PSYONIC.

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UN Environment report says national GHG pledges only bring one-third of reductions needed for Paris Agreement

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The world’s 100 largest emitting publicly traded companies, for example, account for around a quarter of global greenhouse emissions (including emissions from the use of their products by customers). The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol aims to phase out the use and production of hydrofluorocarbons.