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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

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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. Today, we'll look at a K sedan that survived 36 years before being retired in California. My personal K-Car experience hasn't been as positive.

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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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emissions from combustion sources such as industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail operations, and commercial and residential heating throughout the United States cause about 200,000 (90% CI: 90,000–362,000) premature deaths each year, with another 10,000 (90% CI: ?1,000 Industrial emissions contribute to ?41,000

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. Although the United States chose not to participate in the development of the Concorde, in 1963 President John F. Everett Collection/Alamy. supersonic airliner.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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February, 2008 : Researchers from England, Germany, and the United States proposed replacing the term “tipping point”, which suggests a specific time frame, with “tipping elements” to describe known ecosystems in danger of collapse, yet for which a likely timeframe could not easily be estimated ( earlier post ).

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Artwick then took a job with Hughes Aviation, in California, while continuing to work on 3D graphics in his free time. Still, its first-person 3D visuals were ahead of the curve, predating more famous hits like Atari’s Battlezone. “I 1984) modeled the entire United States, Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0

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2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: Electric Microbus for North America appears, at last

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Canada will receive the same long-wheelbase ID.Buzz as the United States, albeit with instruments in metric, but that market gets two additional changes. From a peak in about 2000, this segment has stabilized at a low level with only a few players (Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, Kia). Other revisions based on feedback from ID.4