Ferrari said the Spaniard had signed a three-year contract and that he would partner Brazilian Felipe Massa.

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The aircraft were being built in Jacksonville, Fla. together with their U.S. lead partner on the contract, the Sierra Nevada Corporation.

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Three days after Stanford withdrew, the city awarded the contract to Cornell University and its junior partner, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the oldest university in Israel.

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