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US Transportation Secretary LaHood issues “Blueprint for Ending Distracted Driving”; $2.4M for California, Delaware pilot projects

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Challenges the auto industry to adopt new and future guidelines for technology to reduce the potential for distraction on devices built or brought into vehicles. Nationwide, 39 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Guam ban texting behind the wheel. —US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

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This Stevens Institute of Technology Student Got a Head Start in Engineering

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At 16, she landed a part-time position at FXB , a mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering company in Chadds Ford, Pa., Now a junior, Dion is part of the five-year Stevens cooperative education program , which allows her to rotate three full-time work placements during the second quarter of the school year through August.

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