Tuesday, December 08, 2009 GUADALAJARA: A remote-controlled dinosaur robot worth about 100,000 dollars has been stolen from Australia's "Walking with Dinosaurs" show in Guadalajara, event organizers said Monday. "Only in Mexico! How it happened, we don't know. We don't even know if whoever stole it knows its value," show spokeswoman Karla Arroyo told reporters. It was the first time an exhibit has been stolen from the show, which has toured worldwide and been seen by more than four million people, she said. "Walking with Dinosaurs" opened in Guadalajara on Friday, and staff discovered that one of the smaller robots was missing after the show closed that same day. The missing reptilian is 1.50 meters (59 inches) tall and moves by remote control. At around 100,000 dollars, it is the least expensive of its fellow robots at the show, which measure up to 13 meters (42.6 feet) and cost up to one million dollars, Arroyo said. Despite the robbery, Arroyo said the show "did not stop." "Everything went on as usual," she added.
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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