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Used Car of the Day: 1999 Toyota 4Runner SR5

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Today we bring you a very clean-looking 1999 Toyota 4Runner SR5. It has apparently been owned by the same person since 2001 and well-maintained. It's a four-cylinder automatic with two-wheel drive. According to seller, the vehicle runs and drives well and the only thing that doesn't work is the digital clock.

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Mahindra inaugurates EV plant, describes its vision of “future of mobility”

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Mahindra Group articulates the future of mobility using 5 Cs: Clean, Convenient, Connected, Clever and Cost Effective. Among these are ‘Quick2Charge’, by which the car can be charged in 15 minutes to run 25 km; a personal charging unit called ‘Sun2Car’; and ‘Car 2 Home’ to use energy from the car to power a house.

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California ARB: GHG emissions fell below 1990 levels for first time in 2016; down 13% from 2004 peak; transportation emissions up 2%

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They fell 23% from a peak of 14 metric tons per person (roughly equal to driving 34,000 miles) in 2001 to 10.8 metric tons per person in 2016 (roughly equal to driving 26,000 miles). The carbon intensity of California’s economy has dropped 38% since the 2001 peak and is now one-half the national average.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Environmental Protection Agency , in implementing the 1970 Clean Air Act , was struggling to establish baselines for air-quality levels, she says. “To

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Homeland Security Now Combating Street Takeovers

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Drifting never would have become popular had Japanese fans not bothered to block access to ensure drivers could make clean attempts on public roads. Meanwhile, the police need to find some way of preventing the worst kind of street takeovers without taking a scattershot approach that ropes in every person that squeals their tires.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. Once the dust had settled, Cerf sent an email to his old friend Eric Schmidt, who had been hired as CEO of Google in 2001. “Hi It is rare for someone to be as capable as he is and as wonderful a person.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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For 20 years, until the mid-1990s, joining Kim’s lab was essentially the only way for aspiring semiconductor engineers in South Korea to get hands-on training; KAIS was the only university in the country that had able teachers and proper facilities, including clean rooms for assembling high-quality chips. Legend and Legacy.