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B arnstormer: Ron Caraway, of Apple Valley, shares tales of adventures and misadventures in the wild, blue yonder.
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Byline: Stuart Kellogg
Sep. 9--"Prop clear!" At Midfield Aviation, at the Apple Valley Airport, Ron Caraway started up the biplane's engine and taxied north-northeast toward Sidewinder Valley. "This plane has the nicest harmony of controls of any I've ever flown," he said of the Marquart MA5, built by and borrowed from his friend Jim Chapman.
"With a 125-horsepower 0290 engine, it's like barnstorming in the 1920s but with modern technology."
At the end of the runway, he turned the handsome green plane around, sped up and at 60 mph achieved an ...
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The Mekong River Commission: transboundary water resources planning and regional security.(Abstract)
Magazine article from: The Geographical Journal
; Introduction The Mekong River Commission (MRC) was founded...development across Southeast Asia's lower Mekong River basin. The MRC's member nations...s predecessor organizations were the Mekong Committee (1957-78) and the Interim...
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Mekong Capital Launches $50 million Mekong Enterprise Fund II, Ltd.; Second Mekong Capital Private Equity Fund Will Focus on Vietnamese Companies Selling into Local Market.
Business Wire
; HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Mekong Capital announced today that it has launched...private equity fund, the $50 million Mekong Enterprise Fund II, Ltd. ("the Fund...Freund, founder and Managing Director of Mekong Capital, said: "This is an important...
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Mekong Committee history and lessons for river basin development.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Journal
; ...development has been conducted in the Lower Mekong River Basin. Since its creation in 1957 the United Nations-sponsored Mekong Committee has been coordinating water...political, and economic changes, yet the Mekong Committee has persisted and made several...
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SOUTHEAST ASIA: MEKONG RIVER DEVELOPMENT MAY TRIGGER CONFLICT
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...countries that share the waters of the Mekong River risk being swept into a regional...potential trigger is the irregular flow of the Mekong's waters, which experts at a discussion...Kristensen, chief executive officer of the Mekong River Commission (MRC), an inter...
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AMCC'S Mekong IC Enables End-to-End OC-192 System Solutions for Next-Generation Intelligent Optical Network Equipment.
Business Wire
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2001 Mekong Represents AMCC's Latest Generation...today announced the availability of the Mekong (S19204), the industry's first highly...generation optical networking equipment. Mekong is a multi-feature integrated circuit...
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ASIA: MEKONG LEADERS BACK 'BIODIVERSITY CORRIDORS' FOR WILDLIFE
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...criticism that economic integration in the Mekong region is being pursued at the expense...local livelihoods, leaders of the six Mekong countries endorsed Tuesday the creation...asserted Rajat Nag, director general of the Mekong Department at the Asian Development Bank...
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Negotiating the Mekong - longest river in Asean
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...Straits Times 03-12-2001 Negotiating the Mekong - longest river in Asean Byline: K...of "mapping" some lengths along the Mekong, one of the the world's greatest rivers...possible to do full justice to the great Mekong, but I aim to try, armed with knowledge...
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The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future.(Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Southeast Asia
; The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future. By...The outside world knows little about the Mekong region, in spite of its topographical...almost twenty centuries of history along the Mekong River and in its basin countries, this...
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VIETNAM: NEW MEKONG PLAN TO CHECK SEASONAL FLOODS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...be easily destroyed by seasonal floods that hit the Mekong Delta. The Mekong Delta, Vietnam's lush rice bowl, is flooded between...1994 flooding when some 400 people were killed in Mekong Delta. To check the yearly disaster brought on by...
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ASIA: HEAD OF MEKONG RIVER COMMISSION FENDS OFF CRITICISM
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...May 11, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Mekong River Commission has faced sharp criticism...to guide hydropower development on the Mekong mainstream. Jeremy Bird, who took over...agreed that among the challenges facing the Mekong River Commission, "obviously a key one...
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