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10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries

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Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 The clinics were in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, St. μg PM 2.5 /m parts per billion (ppb) NO x. For each 5 μg PM 2.5 /m m 3 increase, coronary calcium progressed by 4.1 Agatston units per year (95% CI 1.4–6.8)

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UPS to invest more than additional $90M in natural gas vehicles and infrastructure; 6 new CNG stations, 440 vehicles

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UPS plans to build an additional six compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 390 new CNG tractors and terminal trucks and 50 liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. Chicago, Ill.; UPS also purchased 50 additional LNG vehicles that were deployed in Indianapolis, Ind.;

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications , in 2000. Behnke spent his entire career at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. He was IEEE secretary in 2000. He taught at the university until he retired in 2000. For his work in the field, he was named the first recipient of the IEEE Dennis J.

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Automobile Information manage providers, ranked through general OEM automobile portions gross sales

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Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 726-2462 Swamy Kotagiri (CEO) $18,920 ( f ) $16,671 ( f ) $37,840 ( f ) $36,242 ( f ) Frame buildings, exteriors, powertrain, electronics, mechatronics, mirrors, lighting fixtures, seating, whole automobile production Northville, MI, USA (734) 855-2600 Martin Fischer (president & member board of control) $12,000 $10,454 (..)

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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It was manufactured in small volumes by Exxon, appeared at an electric vehicle show in Chicago in 1977, and served briefly as a coin cell battery. Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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This effort will build on Austin Energy’s existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. . Pecan Street Project (TX). 29,561,142. 125,006,103. Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). 25,000,000. 24,978,264.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Players piloted a Cessna 182 in four real-world areas, including Chicago and Seattle. This gave subLogic a cheat sheet to build on. The hard work came to fruition in Flight Simulator 2000 , which reached a technical milestone: It mapped the entire planet in 1-kilometer blocks. The Blackshark.ai

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