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Moscow snow ban to create engineering jobs
Civil engineering recruitment could be boosted in Russia this winter after the mayor of Moscow unveiled plans to launch a major geoengineering project. Mayor Yury Luzhkov is hoping to control the weather by banning snow from landing in the Russian capital through expanding cloud seeding operations.
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