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Junkyard Find: 1977 Dodge Tradesman 200 Mystery Machine

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The Chrysler Corporation sold vans based on the B-Series platform from the 1971 through 2003 model years, giving them Dodge , Plymouth and Fargo badging along the way. Today's Junkyard Find is a first-generation B-van, found in a Colorado boneyard. 1977 Dodge Tradesman 200 in Colorado junkyard.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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Built in Missouri, probably shipped to Colorado by train, then sold new in Greeley, located about 60 miles north of Denver and the site of a famous Utopian community during the late 19th century. It was brought back to life on the 2003-2004 Marauder , a version of the Grand Marquis powered by the Lincoln Mark VIII 's DOHC engine.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is retrofitting 36 school buses with technologies to cut soot and reduce idling. Delaware and Virginia.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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While there, he applied to join the electrical engineering faculty at the Air Force Academy , in Colorado Springs, Colo. After he retired from the school in 2003 he was appointed as a member of the South Dakota Department of Education. into a scientific laboratory in 2003 at the request of the U.S.

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Subaru BRAT GL

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This made it a sales hit in snowy, mountainous Colorado. Subaru tried to revive the old BRAT magic with the Legacy-based Baja for the 2003-2006 model years, but sales weren't great. Today's Junkyard Find is a second-generation BRAT, found in a self-service yard between Denver and Cheyenne. Sales elsewhere continued through 1994.

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Satellite and GPS Measurements Show Ice Loss from Greenland Ice Sheet Spreading to Northwest Coast

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The team, which includes researchers from Denmark’s Technical Institute’s National Space Institute in Copenhagen and University of Colorado at Boulder, combined the uplift measured by GRACE over United Kingdom-sized chunks of Greenland, while the GPS receivers monitored crustal uplift on scales of just tens of miles. “

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Study Finds Regional Variations in Irrigation Practices Can Push Corn Ethanol Water Requirements 3x Higher Than Earlier Estimates; Need to Account for Regional Specifics in Mandates

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According to the survey conducted by the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) in 2003, 36 out of 47 states expect varied degrees of water shortages within the next decade.

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