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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

The Truth About Cars

Lee Iacocca 's Chrysler Corporation sold K-Cars in the United States for the 1981 through 1989 model years, saving itself from near-certain bankruptcy in the process. I recall angrily futzing with video codecs in order to watch the file I'd laboriously downloaded of this spoof Aries commercial, circa 2000.

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10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

Green Car Congress

Maglev 2000 of Florida Corporation to establish the feasibility of a superconducting electrodynamics suspension (repulsive force) technology. FTA funded five projects under the UML program: The General Atomics Urban Maglev Project (General Atomics, San Diego, CA as the lead company) to develop a system based on permanent magnets.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

Creative Greenius

The Pacific Coast Termite grant also funded an environmentally friendly XT-2000 Orange Oil termite treatment for the greenhouse. The on-stage banner heralding the ribbon cutting event @ ECHS. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia). Plants in black tubes behind the ECHS Science teacher are being fed by aquaponic system in the new solar-powered greenhouse.

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The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

Fourteen production aircraft were manufactured, but one was scrapped in 1994 and another crashed in 2000.). The best-funded of this group is Denver-based Boom Technology (which also goes by the trade name Boom Supersonic). This past June, United Airlines announced its intention to purchase 15 Overture airliners from Boom Technology.