Tallest suspension bridge: Mexico's Baluarte Bridge sets world record (Video)

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??Mexico -- The 403m (1321ft) tall Baluarte bridge spans a deep ravine in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in the north - setting the new world record for the Tallest suspension bridge, according to World Records Academy (www.worldrecordsacademy.org).

??Photo:?The Baluarte Bridge is officially the highest suspension bridge in the world. The 403m (1,322ft) tall cable-stayed bridge is so lofty the Eiffel Tower would easily fit under its central span. Photo: Reuters (enlarge photo)

??The Guinness world record for the tallest bridge was set by the 2,460-m (8,070-ft) long Millau Viaduct across the Tarn Valley, France, which is supported by seven concrete piers, the tallest of which measures 244.96 m (804 ft) from the ground to the road deck.

??Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the Longest Footbridge, set by the 2.06-km (6,767-ft, or 1.28-mile) Poughkeepsie Bridge (also known as the Walkway Over the Hudson State National Park) in New York, USA.

??The World's Tallest Bridge is part of a new highway crossing some of Mexico's most rugged terrain, from Mazatlan on the Pacific Coast to Durango in the interior.

??The opening of the 1,124m (3,687ft) long bridge is part of celebrations to mark 200 years of Mexico's independence from Spain, says the BBC.

??The massive infrastructure project consists of 152 steel suspenders supporting over 1100 meters of 20 meter wide roadway, with a central span of over 520 meters.
? Its four lanes are held up by two 400 meter towers ? tall enough to house the Eiffel Tower ? which bring the structure its impressive world record credentials.
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??The bridge is part of the Durango-Mazatlan highway, built at a cost of more than 20 billion pesos ($A1.42 billion) and the most significant road project during Mr Calderon's six-year term, which began in December 2006, the transportation ministry said in a statement.

??The $1.42 billion project is 86 percent complete, and will be finished by the end of January.

??Mr Calderon supervised construction work on the bridge on Thursday along with the governors of Sinaloa and Durango and said that it would provide an economic boost to both states.

?"With developments in infrastructure, we'll continue to achieve the targets established during my term,'' the President said.

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??Longest bridge over water: China's Qingdao Haiwan Bridge

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Source: http://www.worldrecordsacademy.org/biggest/tallest_suspension_bridge_Mexico_Baluarte_Bridge_sets_world_record_112673.html

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GOP candidates reveal last-minute strategies

Several storylines emerged Monday on the last full day of campaigning before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses. Front-runner Mitt Romney is trying to tamp down an upstart threat from Rick Santorum. Santorum was trying to shoulder past Ron Paul, who has been running a close second to Romney but now has Santorum nipping at his heels. Paul is calling his rivals' attempts to discredit his foreign policy and other views as desperation and demagoguery. Rick Perry is to trying to keep Santorum from pulling away from a three-way tie with him and Newt Gingrich by questioning Santorum's voting record on earmarks in the Senate. Gingrich is questioning his strategy of trying to stay positive against a withering onslaught of negative ads and attacks by rivals. And Michele Bachmann, running at the back of the pack, is predicting a "miracle" finish in the state that launched her campaign over the summer. No Republican contest has had the volatility of this one with candidates moving from the top to the bottom of polls. Iowa Rep. Steve King, whose endorsement is a coveted one, characterized the race as a game of "king of the hill." "If you're at the top of the hill, everybody has to try to pull you down and your negatives get illuminated and a lot of scrutiny goes on," King told CNN's Soledad O'Brien on "Starting Point." "If you have five or six people trying to pull you off the hill, eventually they do that, someone else takes the top of the hill." King said Romney has hung around the top of the hill. "He hasn't actually claimed the top of the hill and decide he was about to own it until about now." Romney, who for the most part has focused his attacks on President Barack Obama and left attacks on Republican rivals to surrogates and political action committees that support him, took shots at the other candidates in the GOP field and contrasted his record with that of Santorum at an event in Atlantic on Sunday, attention that proves Santorum's surge in polls is getting the front-runner's attention. Insiders survey: 2 out of 3 think Romney will win "Like Speaker Gingrich, Senator Santorum has spent his career in government, in Washington," Romney told reporters. "Nothing wrong with that, but it is a very different background than I have." Romney also reminded voters and members of the media that Santorum backed his first White House bid during the last presidential election. The former Massachusetts governor has a series of rallies across the state on Monday. Santorum addressed the endorsement Sunday during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," saying he backed the former Massachusetts governor in 2008 to prevent Sen. John McCain from securing the GOP nomination. In another example of the changing climate, Santorum took aim Sunday at Paul's foreign policy positions. "Like the president said when he was campaigning and I predict, that if the president has four years where he's not looking for reelection, his foreign policy will not be any different than Ron Paul's foreign policy," Santorum said in Sioux City. Santorum will hold "meet and greets" with voters at five locations across the state on Monday. With Paul's rise to the top tier, rivals have attacked his noninterventionist views on foreign policy and less aggressive stance on Iran's nuclear program. They've also resurrected newsletters published under Paul's name in the 1990s that included racist comments. Paul has said he was unaware of the content of the newsletters at the time and rejected the content. In an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley on "State of the Union," Paul drew contrasts between what he called his consistent positions and those of his rivals, and said opponents are desperate to find ways to attack him. "They've been all over the place. They've been flip-flopping and they can't defend themselves," he said. "They're having a little trouble finding any flip-flops on me, so they have to go and dig up and distort and demagogue issues." As to assertions that he would be unelectable in the general election, Paul countered, "I've been electable. I was elected 12 times once people got to know me in my own congressional district. So I think that might be more propaganda than anything else." Paul took the weekend off to return to Texas to be with his wife but is back on the trail Monday, when he'll appear with his son Sen. Rand Paul, a tea party favorite, at four whistle stop locations across the state and Rand Paul will attend a fifth. Gingrich appears to be taking off the gloves in the final hours leading up to the caucuses, obviously smarting from the battering he's taken over the past month. Gingrich's rise in the polls, fueled by strong debate performances and a conservative wing of the party that still has reservations about Romney, was met with a barrage of negative ads from political action committees that support Romney. "For a state this size, to spend that number of dollars in negative ads aimed at one candidate is pretty amazing," Gingrich said. And he said that if he had the opportunity to do anything differently, "I would have pulled the plug on Romney's PAC." Asked if he felt he had been "swift-boated," a reference to the attacks on John Kerry's military record during the 2004 presidential campaign, Gingrich replied, "No, I feel Romney-boated." The former House speaker sounded as if he might ready to take off the gloves after his pledge to stay positive, what he called an "interesting experiment," if not on Monday then certainly in New Hampshire, which votes a week after Iowa. "New Hampshire's the perfect state to have a debate over Romney-care," he said, referring to the health care reform law passed in Massachusetts when Romney was governor, which contains an individual mandate that conservatives despise and say was the model for President Barack Obama's federal health care reform law. Gingrich's campaign bus will be on the road on Monday and he'll hold two town hall meetings and another tele-town hall meeting. Perry sought to downplay expectations of how he'll finish in Iowa, saying in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" that he got into the race late while "some of these folks have been running for years." Other candidates "may do OK in Iowa, but when it comes to running a national political campaign, they're going to falter." Perry is enlisting his most prominent supporters for a major rally on the eve of the caucuses. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, both of whom endorsed Perry early in the race, will join the Texas governor during his last event of the day. Joining them on stage will be former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, the chief proponent of Perry's flat-tax proposal, and Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a longtime Perry ally in Austin. South Carolina Rep. Mick Mulvaney, one of the most popular conservatives in the early southern primary state, will also appear. Bachmann has heightened her rhetoric and optimism amid Hawkeye State poll figures that list her near the bottom of the pack in the state. During an interview Sunday with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Bachmann reiterated her expectations that Iowans "are going to see a miracle" when the caucuses are over. She also said she is the only candidate with the resolve to perpetuate former President Ronald Regan's legacy and become "America's iron lady," a reference to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Despite a consistent decline since winning the Ames straw poll in August, Bachmann has suggested the Iowa caucuses are unpredictable. "We don't know who will come to the caucuses [or] who won't," Bachmann said on CNN. "You can take poll tests, but everything that matters is who shows up and who do they support." Bachmann, one of the most frequent of Iowa visitors in the race to the White House, is a strong social conservative and often touts her history as a foster parent as well as her Iowa roots during campaign stops. She will once again hit the campaign trail Monday with two stops in the state: a restaurant stop in West Des Moines and an event at her campaign headquarters in Urbandale. Former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, the other major Republican candidate in the race, isn't competing in Iowa but instead focusing his efforts on New Hampshire, which votes a week after Iowa. On Sunday, Huntsman sent a letter to supporters offering to match dollar-for-dollar contributions to his campaign. Huntsman's poll numbers have edged upward in New Hampshire in recent weeks but he has failed to break into the top tier. Romney has consistently held a large lead in polls there.

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Illinois beats UCLA 20-14 in Fight Hunger Bowl

BC-FBC--Fight Hunger Bowl, 2nd Ld-Writethru,898Illinois beats UCLA 20-14 in Fight Hunger BowlAP Photo FXPB118, FXPB119, FXPB110, FXPB101Eds: Illinois 20, UCLA 14. New approach. With AP Photos.By JOSH DUBOWAP Sports Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Waiting 12 weeks between wins was hard enough for Illinois. Terry Hawthorne and a stingy defense made sure the Illini didn't have to wait an entire offseason as well.

Hawthorne returned an interception 39 yards for Illinois' first touchdown late in the third quarter and the Illini snapped a six-game losing streak by beating UCLA 20-14 in the Fight Hunger Bowl.

"It's definitely a relief," said All-American defensive end Whitney Mercilus, who tied Simeon Rice's school record for sacks in a season with 16. "We've been pent up with a lot of anxiety, a little bit of anger with what happened throughout the season and what went wrong. ... It's a great feeling overall. I'm just ecstatic right now."

Nathan Scheelhaase added a 60-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Jenkins midway through the fourth quarter to seal the first victory for Illinois (7-6) since beating Indiana on Oct. 8.

It also gave the Illini bowl wins in back-to-back seasons for the first time in school history. The players celebrated it by dumping Gatorade on interim coach Vic Koenning during a postgame celebration.

"It feels great to come out with a win. It's why we came here," Scheelhaase said. "Coach Vic said the first night out here, we came here to win. We've been through some tough times but we have an amazing belief in our locker room in each other."

The game between two six-win teams who have already fired their head coaches matched the underwhelming expectations as there was little excitement before Hawthorne's third-quarter touchdown that gave Illinois its first lead.

UCLA (6-8) was held to 18 yards rushing in its third straight loss. Kevin Prince threw two TD passes, including one in the closing minute to Nelson Rosario after the game had been decided.

"This is not the way we wanted to go out, to send our seniors out," tight end Joseph Fauria said. "I guess there's some sort of relief for guys that have another year and looking forward to new beginnings. At the same time, this is going to be a bad taste in our mouth for these next six months or something. But we're excited for new beginnings."

It was an earlier pass by Prince that proved decisive. Three plays after Derek Dimke missed a 37-yard field goal for Illinois, Prince dropped back and threw to his left looking for Shaquelle Evans.

Hawthorne read the play perfectly and stepped in front of the throw for the interception and had a clear path to the end zone for the score that gave the Illini a 10-7 lead.

"The corner just jumped it," Prince said. "'It was a little hitch route. I was anticipating him playing in the quarters-type look, where he's going to be off, cover-two look. And he just picked the ball off. Good play by him, and brain fart by me."

Dimke added a 37-yard field goal early in the fourth quarter and Scheelhaase and Jenkins combined on their big play to make it 20-7 with 5:36 to go. Scheelhaase finished 18 for 30 for 139 yards with 110 yards rushing to lead the Illinois offense.

Prince completed just 14 for 29 for 201 yards and the Bruins were held to a season-low in rushing, well below their 190.7 yard per game average, by the stout Illini front.

The matchup between Big Ten and Pac-12 teams on New Year's weekend at a picturesque setting in California conjures up memories of Rose Bowls past. But this game was played on San Francisco's waterfront instead of with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background in Pasadena and was between two teams that had little to celebrate this season.

Both teams fired their coaches after disappointing regular seasons with Ron Zook getting let go by Illinois after losing six straight games to end the season and Rick Neuheisel getting run out at UCLA after a 50-0 loss to rival Southern California in the regular season finale. Neuheisel coached the Bruins when they lost the Pac-12 title game at Oregon, leaving them as the first team to go to a bowl with a losing record since North Texas in 2001.

With their head coaches gone and new coaches Tim Beckman at Illinois and Jim Mora at UCLA not set to take over until January, interim coaches Koenning and Mike Johnson ran the Illini and Bruins respectively.

There was so much turmoil that Koenning did not know if his offensive assistants would take part in the game until seeing interim offensive coordinator Jeff Brohm at breakfast before the game.

"I wasn't worried about that," Koenning said. "If I came up to that bridge and there wasn't a bridge there, then I'd worry about how to get across it. There are so many other things to worry about."

The Illini opened up the playbook in the first half but still trailed 7-3 at the break. They called a throwback pass to Scheelhaase, a reverse, a fake field goal and went for it on fourth-and-1 from their own territory.

UCLA stuffed Donovonn Young for a loss on that run from the Illinois 45, setting up Prince's 16-yard TD pass to Taylor Embree for the first score of the game.

The game, which is sponsored by Kraft, generated three meals for local food banks for each of the 29,878 tickets sold. Officials used an Oreo cookie for the opening coin toss.

Associated Press

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Iran dismisses U.S. sanctions on its Central Bank: report (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters) ? Iran dismissed on Sunday Washington's move to impose new sanctions on financial institutions dealing with the Islamic state's central bank over the country's disputed nuclear program, the Students news agency reported.

President Barack Obama signed the bill, approved by Congress

last week, which aims to reduce Tehran's oil revenues but gives the U.S. president powers to waive penalties as required.

The head of Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Mohammad Nahavandian, rejected the move as "unjustifiable," saying such sanctions would have reciprocal consequences.

"The Iranian nation and those involved in trade and economic activities will find other alternatives," said Nahavandian.

Washington and the European Union have already pushed four rounds of sanctions through the United Nations over Iran's nuclear program and imposed unilateral measures that have deterred Western investment in Iran's oil sector, making it harder to move money in and out of the country.

Imposing sanctions on the central bank would tighten that screw and make it more difficult for Iran to receive payments for exports -- particularly oil, a vital source of hard currency for the world's fifth-biggest crude exporter.

Iranian officials insist that foreign sanctions have had no impact on the country's economy.

"The sanctions have raised the cost of trade and economic transactions but it has not managed to change Iran's political behavior," Nahavandian said.

So far, Iran's leaders have shown no sign of changing the country's nuclear course despite mounting international pressure to force it to stop.

U.S. financial institutions are already generally prohibited from doing business with any bank in Iran, including the central bank, so the new measure by Washington would have to be carried out with international agreement.

Nahavandian said European countries should not miss the investment opportunity in an emerging market like Iran.

"Considering the economic crisis in Europe, the European companies are after finding new markets ... political disputes should not have an impact on trade relations," he said.

Senior U.S. officials said Washington was engaging with its foreign partners to ensure the sanctions can work without harming global energy markets and stressed the U.S. strategy for engaging with Iran was unchanged by the bill.

Washington and its allies say Iran is trying to build nuclear bombs under the cover of a civilian program. Tehran denies that, saying it needs nuclear technology to generate power.

(Reporting by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Paul Tait)

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