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NHTSA: US traffic fatalities increased 3.3% in 2012

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The majority of the increase in deaths (72%)—the first increase since 2005—occurred in the first quarter of the year. Ten times as many riders died not wearing a helmet in states without a universal helmet law than in states with such laws. Most of those involved were motorcyclists and pedestrians. increase over 2011).

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Tanenbaum went on to serve as president of AT&T’s New Jersey Bell (now part of Verizon ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. He coauthored the seminal 2005 textbook Photovoltaic Solar Energy Generation.

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Battelle, Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership release Phase II reports

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Building on this foundation, a series of small-scale field validation tests were conducted in the Phase II portion of the program (late 2005 - early 2011). Phase I began in October 2003 and focused on developing a comprehensive assessment of regional CO2 sources and potential geological sequestration opportunities within the Midwest region.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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www.youtube.com As an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie Tech (today’s Carnegie Mellon University), and then as a graduate student at Caltech (before he moved to MIT after one year), Sutherland continued to design and build more advanced light-seeking robots. The reason? This one performed addition.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). The program will reduce emissions fifteen percent below 2005 levels by 2020. After 2014, the amount of allowances shrinks gradually by 2.5

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