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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

The Truth About Cars

Our own Corey Lewis has written the definitive history of the Mitsubishi Diamante as a four-part Rare Rides Icons series, going all the way back to the original Sigma. Before continuing here, you'll need to read the whole series first: Part I , Part II , Part III , Part IV. Did anyone ever sit back here?

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Beyond Pizza and Yale: What to See, Eat and Do in New Haven

Baua Electric

In the largely Black and brown Dixwell neighborhood northwest of campus, Titus Kaphar, a resident and 2006 graduate of the Yale School of Art, and Jason Price, a private equity manager, founded NXTHVN. Talks, tours, workshops and gatherings are also part of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art ’s mix.

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California ARB approves cap-and-trade amendments; linking with Ontario

Green Car Congress

AB 617 directs CARB to work with local air districts on the deployment of community-focused air quality monitoring networks, as well as the development and implementation of community emission reduction plans in the neighborhoods most burdened by poor air quality. California is on track to achieve its 2020 goal.

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Study links California regulations, significant declines in cancer risk from exposure to air toxics

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In 2006, California began requiring ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel. Such controls are part of broader statewide transportation initiatives, including the Truck and Bus Rule and more than a dozen rules focused on diesel equipment serving ports and railyards. Estimating DPM.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

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. Henn Tan holds up a ThumbDrive during an interview in Singapore in January 2006. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device.

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The EV Professor

Electric Auto Association

Eventually, GM pried our car away,” Cox continued, explaining that the next time he experienced an EV was at a Tesla event in 2006 in Santa Monica, California, where he rode in a prototype Tesla Roadster. “My For the most part, the students drove the Teslas around campus, but often “They’d go out into the city streets as well,” Cox said. “I

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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Luh was the head of UConn’s engineering department from 2006 to 2009. Raymond Kowalchuk Electrical engineer Life member, 87; died 8 November Kowalchuk was a senior staff consultant at AEL Industries (now part of BAE Systems ), in Colmar, Pa., now part of Siemens ), in Schenectady, where he spent the remainder of his career.

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