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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. MB of data.

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UNECE: claim that diesel on-road vehicles are the cause of increased lung cancer is misleading

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based on 2005 emission totals, to be met by countries by or before 2020. An improved modal split, particularly from individual to public transport in personal mobility and from roads to rail in long term freight transport while improving environmental performance at micro level. By 2010, average annual reductions of PM 2.5

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Lead the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 for developing a vehicle that could navigate and drive through a desert course without human intervention. He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

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Yes, even these unfortunate dimwits can still save what’s left of their retirement funds while helping out the rest of us who weren’t fooled by the right wing, unabashed carbon pimps who ran things in the US government from 2000-2008 and did more damage to our environment than any government in history. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. Tags: carbon producers GHG bicycles emissions Environment L.A.

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