And computers are now integral to nearly every conventionally blue-collar profession, from police work to cargo loading to trucking.

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He hitchhiked to Florida, found a job loading racehorses into cargo planes in Miami and decided to work with avionics.

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And I'm hoping that the airlines, who are already losing money with their planes on the ground, will start looking at getting work done on them like conversions into cargo planes.

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We were certain that this was just a "pie in the sky" concept, but apparently engineers are hard at work designing those futuristic space elevators that promise to eventually whisk cargo and humans to the final frontier at a fraction of the cost of rocket-based delivery systems.

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The shuttle did some extraordinary work in low-orbit experiments, the International Space Station, moving cargo.

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Their successful completion of the docking mission at 12:47 pm local time on Sunday means China is fully capable of transferring humans and cargo to an orbiter in space much like the Americans, only the Americans have abandoned further work in this area beyond the current International Space Station expedition which ends next month.

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Clinton also plans to use the Mexico trip to work on one NAFTA provision that allows U.S. and Mexican truckers to haul cargo in border states.

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Yet it was just a dress rehearsal, a favor from Western energy companies, to help traders at Gazprom's new London trading desk learn how to put in place agreements between buyer and seller, work out kinks in the system and go through the process of finding and negotiating for cargo and locating a home for it.

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