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Used Car of the Day: 1999 Toyota 4Runner SR5

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It has apparently been owned by the same person since 2001 and well-maintained. New parts include new spark plugs, new distributor cap and rotor, new spark plug wires, new tires, new master cylinder, and new valve cover gasket. It's a four-cylinder automatic with two-wheel drive.

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ARC Automobile responds to NHTSA request in airbag inflator probe

Baua Electric

A NHTSA spokesperson showed to Automobile Information on June 15 that the company had gained ARC’s reaction to the particular series and that it was once “being processed for personally identifiable information and confidential business information before a public version is made available in the investigation file.”

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Homeland Security Now Combating Street Takeovers

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According to The Drive , news about the takeover started circulating even before the Lone Star Throwdown had concluded. Despite originally being a counterterrorism agency formed in the panic following the World Trade Center attacks on September 11th, 2001, Homeland Security has become a catch-all federal policing agency.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Samsung promoted Kim in 2021 to executive vice president of its six Global AI Centers, located in Cambridge, England; Montreal; Seoul; Silicon Valley; New York; and Toronto. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company. The suite of generative AI models can generate code, images, and text.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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In 2001 she realized her goal of working on a satellite mission. They reinforced the perception that Dresselhaus was a truly amazing person as well as a trailblazer.” You would never, as a junior person, typically have opportunities to meet these people.” She was a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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At the talk, he met Joel Snyder , who was 2001 IEEE president and “built up a very personal relationship with him,” Gaynor says. It wasn’t until he was asked to attend a meeting of the IEEE Twin Cities (Minn.) Section in 1962 that he became more involved.

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Greentech Media | Japan Accounts for 70% of Electric Vehicle Patents

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Email Japan Accounts for 70% of Electric Vehicle Patents A new report from Japan's Patent Office has found that the country comprises most of the patents for electric vehicles, which include EVs, hybrids and fuel cell vehicles. by: Tech-On! The number nearly doubled from 9,034 in 1995 to 2000.

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