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Ford unveils new 2015 Focus four-door sedan; 1.0L EcoBoost with start/stop comes to US model

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Ford unveiled the new Ford Focus four-door sedan prior to its debut at the 2014 New York International Auto Show next week. The debut of the new Focus four-door sedan and the Focus Electric in New York follows the Geneva Motor Show debut in March of the Focus three- and five-door hatchback and wagon.

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The Future of Electric Cars Could Lie in.Afghanistan?

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Today's sources of lithium are far and few: Bolivia has something like 40 percent of the world's deposits, while Russia, South Africa, Chile and Argentina have some. This weekend, the New York Times reported that the war-ravaged country.

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3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

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By now, they were supposed to be well into the first leg of the three-year Life at Sea cruise , sailing from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia. Follow New York Times Travel on Instagram and sign up for our weekly Travel Dispatch newsletter to get expert tips on traveling smarter and inspiration for your next vacation.

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Letting in the Light

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We also took GE electric vans into the Blacksburg, Virginia schools,” Smith said, adding that during his subsequent nine years at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, he continued outreach in local schools, but transitioned into a focus on ebikes in the Engineers Week program, later renamed Discover Engineering.

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The Fed Is Driving Down Oil Prices

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Federal Reserve announced another rate hike a few days ago, which helped edge up the dollar to a new high for the year. The greenback has “a little room to run,” Kathy Jones, a New York-based chief fixed-income strategist at Charles Schwab, said in a Bloomberg interview. “We dollar cannot be discounted.

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Opinion: Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth

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China, and Argentina, combined. Québec and Nova Scotia have banned it, along with the state of New York in the United States. But as was mentioned earlier, the NEB did not do that recoverable-oil calculation. Fracking is a controversial practice that has not gone over well in other parts of Canada.

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US convenes Minerals Security Partnership meeting

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken opened the meeting, held in New York City on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week. First announced in June 2022, the MSP is a new multilateral initiative to bolster critical mineral supply chains essential for the clean energy transition.

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