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Dear Colleagues, In ceremonies at Darmstadt, Germany, this week, the construction phase of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) was started. The facility will produce intense, high-energy beams of ions and antiprotons. It is expected to cost a total of €1.2 billion ($1.75 billion), the majority of which will come from the German national government and the state of Hesse, with the remainder coming from a number of international partners. You can read a press article at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,515900,00.html Further details of the FAIR Kick-off can be found at: http://www-aix.gsi.de/conferences/FAIR_Kick_Off/ The FAIR home page is at: http://www.gsi.de/fair/ Norman Graf