Monday, September 21, 2009 TOKYO: Around 100 Japanese children spent their Saturday flying paper airplanes in a contest held in suburban Tokyo.'We organised this contest to let our children get experiences in handcrafting things so that they become interested in craftsmanship at their early age and later become professional craftsmen,' Fumihiro Uno, the secretariat of Japanese Paper Airplane Association, says.30 teams, each with three members, participated in the event - seeing who could keep their plane airborne for the longest time.The country has a long and proud history of paper plane flying prowess, with nine out of the top-ten longest glides set by the Japanese.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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