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The An-225 Cossack aircraft (wingspan 291 feet, 2 inches) was built to transport the Soviet Union's Buran orbiter, their equivalent of the U.S. Space Shuttle.
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Other large air freighters already flying include the Russian-built Ilyushin Il-76, the U.S.-made Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and, largest of them all, the Antonov An-225 -- also Russian.
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AN-225 which can carry as much as 250 tonnes.
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In other floor action, the House debated and rejected, 194-225, an amendment by Republican Rep. Marge Roukema of New Jersey to replace a Transportation Department program that sets a goal of providing 10 percent of transportation projects to businesses owned by women and minorities with another program that would recruit and provide assistance to such businesses.
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Based on the Snapdragon S4 from Qualcomm, the phone sports a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU and an Adreno 225 GPU. We'll discuss performance details a bit later, but quite simply, the phone offers a lot of power in a little package and feels every bit as snappy as the dual-core One X and Galaxy S III.
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That's an average of 225, 000 options each -- but note that higher level executives receive more shares.
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