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Boeing, Kenya Airways and Seattle University School of Law Deliver Textbooks to Nairobi.

Article from: Science Letter Article date: August 26, 2008

Boeing (NYSE:BA) and Kenya Airways took advantage of the airline's latest delivery of a Next-Generation 737-800 last Thursday to transport 111 boxes of legal textbooks weighing over 3,400 pounds to Nairobi. A small ceremony was held at Boeing Field to commemorate the loading of the last pallets of books onto Kenya Airways' newest Boeing jet that departed today (see also Boeing).

Seattle University School of Law led the donation program through an affiliate group of legal-writing professors who have taught in Africa. ...

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