the leading chipmaker says the latest dram has the same capacity as the 30-nanometer class dram introduced in july last year... but the latest technology offers a 50 percent improvement in productivity and reduces energy consumption by 40 percent. this has placed samsung's technology around six to 18 months ahead of its taiwanese and japanese rivals... which still produces 30 or 40-nanometer class chips. the industry's second- largest chipmaker, hynix semiconductor also based in korea is trying to catch up... as it plans to develop and start producing 20- nanometer class chips by the end of this year. meanwhile, the world's number three dram maker, japan's elpida memory announced earlier this year that it will start producing 25 -nanometer drams... but that still hasn't happened yet. meanwhile, samsung also began operations of the world's biggest memory fabrication facility, the line-16... which is producing nand flash memory devices... and boasts a size equivalent to 28 soccer fields. experts predict samsung's recent success of producing the 20-nano class drams will redeem the company's s

in particular,... electronics shares finished higher on news that demand for dram will steadily increase starting next year. hynix semiconductor jumped a whopping 15 percent, lg electronics nine,... and samsung electronics more than six percent. meanwhile,... the tech- heavy kosdaq went up four percent... and on the fx counter,... the korean currency strengthened by three won... to close at 10-72 tonight in sports...south korea draws with kuwait in a world cup qualifying match in kuwait city. meanwhile, the weather continues to be a problem at the us open. heavy rainfall has postponed the final week of action. jimmy yu has more... hello, i'm jimmy yu and welcome to world sports. starting off with the matchup against kuwait...south korea was simply unable to hold on to an early lead on wednesday, as the nation drew 1-1 in the third round of the continental world cup qualification. at peace and friendship stadium, captain park chu- young gave south korea a lead in the eighth minute, but hussain fadel evened the score eight minutes into the second half of the physical contest. after two gam

the construction of the bastion started in seventeen thirty during the reign of the empress on a dram of not and also for over twenty years the first occasion featured numerous structures made of stone the only two gates in preserves till now days living area is still used as a connector moved between cheap parts of the city. so our final location now in the costly in the back stands in the middle of a strike on a small rocky islands. thousand seven hundred metres long and two hundred meters wide the thoughtless is built in the year twelve months of rain over the centuries has witnessed everything from battles celebrations and asked to they always it's a party in another event that includes lots of souls costumes and. the medieval attraction today is called the knights tournament he says does a great archery seal fighting is one of the main he will add things here and fever this year a mock battle between german and french knights is one of highlights the specifically prince of knowledge mountain spritz faces. the possible features of the culture of folk music dance and the craft perh

when you lay it down, flesh, dram, and it has the faucet holes in here. it has the race area here so water will not run back off of it. >> let's go take a look at shower fittings and fixtures and the shower systems year. they are fascinating and very, very modern looking. all sorts of great stuff. do people like these in their homes? >> yes, i think this is a great example of how people do not want their parents shower anymore. this is the new generation of shower systems, and they have and what occurred, -- accouterments. they just give a wide volume of water distribution. >> is that a problem with water flow? >> these technically meet those standards. the shower head distributes it, so it just kind of gives an appearance of more volume. these are body sprays that will take your body. this is a hand-held, and this is a good example where you could put a bar here. you could leave it in place as the traditional shower, or you could take it, and you could do it, and this is also great for cleaning and washing your dog and things like that. >> right, so you

but i don't think it will change the narrative in dram believe ways but will provide us with some new information. but there is one, to give you an example of one big unanswered question, did the hijackers have a support network inside e united states. >> rose: give me both sides of it? >> we. >> rose: what dow suspect t can't confirm? what is the evidence that they did or did not? >> the commission actually suspected that they did have a support network inside the united states. but we could not prove it. there was a lot of publicity about allegations about this in '02 and '03, mostly the interest was in possible connections to saudies who might be connected to the saudi government and the news and frel that is connections to saudis, bush, halliburton, it was a very sexy mea angle. most of those leads really didn't pan out there were some saud who, for instance, workinin the ministry of religious affairs who back in the 09see, when the saudis were sponsoring lots of fundamentalist islamic grou might be involved or have connections to islamic terrorist groups. but the saudi government

report to share with you today showing sat scores dropping across the country and dram cli.t take to be the number one school in america? cnn's ed lavenderia, visited a school. >> we'll see. i got them yesterday. uh-huh. >> don't let the kra krcrayons baby wipes fool you. >> you're seeing the tiny dots and pixels. >> she is students are learning how to do java. >> going to have a quiz on thursday. >> at the school in dallas, this is considered a basic course for freshmen. >> we want them to really quench that thirst for knowledge. >> mrs. wells is the school of science and engineering. newsweek named it the number one public high school in america. here's why? >> some of your students take three math classes a day. >> absolutely. we have students that can handle that challenge, pre-calculus and calculus in the same year. >> the third thing do is this. >> students take a rigorous series of math and science courses that most schools don't offer. dozens of college level labs in their junior year. the students have won so many academic contests, they've run out of room to show o

things have changed so dram mat delicious has been really hectic, because we realized that now, it'spen and it's out there about what's happening with our young people and we are very happy and very proud and very thankful to cnn for giving us that exposure. and people have -- we have been contacted from all over the world regarding this issue and how to help and it is really some good people out there who really want to do some things to help us now with our young people and i'm very excited about it. >> what are your plans for kids off the block? what do you hope that your organization can accomplish? >> we want to -- we want to go to other areas. this is not just happening in roseland this had is happening all over our country and we want to move into other areas and help young people and let them know that we believe in them and that we want to help them and let them know that there's hope, there's adults that care about them and we want to spread that message across this nation. and we are going to get a lot of people that's going to help us do that >> we certainly hope that tha