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Switching to unmanned rockets for payload launching and a small space plane for those rare times humans are really needed would cut costs, which is why aerospace contractors have lobbied against such reform. Boeing and Lockheed Martin split roughly half the shuttle business through an Orwellian-named consortium called the United Space Alliance. It's a source of significant profit for both companies; United Space Alliance employs 6,400 contractor personnel for shuttle launches alone. Many other aerospace contractors also benefit from the space-shuttle program...
...Transparency is the watchword, says Siyamend Othman, CEO of the NCMC. Hearings, he pledges, will be held on Iraqi television "and we will be asking some tough questions to each bidder." Two years ago Egypt's Orascom Telecom, Kuwait's MTC Atheer and the Iraqi-Gulf consortium AsiaCell got the prizes, but potential bidders acknowledge the cost will be "way more" than the $3.5 million spent in 2003. So how much money is the NCMC looking for? The Iraqis, one insider told Time, want "as much as they can get." - By Maryann Bird...
...team that includes four Harvard professors has been awarded $300 million to establish an international consortium of laboratories that will work to develop an HIV vaccine...
...consortium, which is called Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI), will have labs at Duke, Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Alabama. Barton Haynes, a professor of immunology at Duke University, will head CHAVI, though three Harvard professors will head three of its five core areas of research...
...Somerfield bid - they include private equity firm Apax, Barclays Capital and Iranian realtor Robert Tchenguiz - may be getting cold feet. Despite expressions of support from Baugur shareholders including Kevin Stanford, co-founder of Karen Millen, Baugur last week bowed to pressure from its partners to drop out of the consortium. Other Icelanders are waiting in the wings. Boosted by a stock-market boom and a thriving economy, several Icelandic companies are also on the acquisition trail overseas, including financial institution Kaupthing and food company Bakkavör. It's not just the springs that are hot in Iceland, it seems...