Bernard Chomilier, IFRC's head of logistics and resources, told him his organization lacked the means to track relief.

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It has been used to coordinate requests for relief efforts, track victims in camps and shelters, and coordinate volunteers in the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, the 2006 mud slide in the Philippines, the 2007 earthquake in Peru and the 2008 earthquake in China.

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Long-term development could nudge us closer to robots with truly general-purpose code -- a welcome relief from the one-track minds the machines often have today.

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Through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), we are on track to meet the HIV prevention and treatment targets I set last year.

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Earlier in the day, FEMA Adminstrator Craig Fugate and National Hurricane Center Director Dr. Rick Knabb briefed President Obama on the expected track for the hurricane and the preparations underway to provide relief efforts.

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Those hypotheticals -- which track the facts of this case -- put in sharp relief the issue that is before this committee.

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Mr. Ran said Beidou is already being used by more than 100, 000 clients in China and has been used to help track government vehicles in the southern province of Guangdong, and to assist disaster-relief work after an earthquake in the western province of Sichuan in 2008.

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The suspense of the film's last 20 minutes, created by the many angles at the director's disposal and the expert editing by Gregers Sall and Chris King, is such that when Senna's car flies off the track into a wall at 190 mph, fracturing his skull, it's almost a relief.

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