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In Argentina, a Boom in Antarctic Cruises Is Straining the ‘End of the World’

Baua Electric

We sell an aura, said Julio Lovece, president of the Ushuaia Foundation XXI, which advocates tourism development that benefits the local community. But its also taxing resources, raising the cost of living and contributing to a housing shortage for workers. The remoteness, Ushuaias biggest selling point, only makes the strain worse.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. Although an electric range of 10 miles may not sound too impressive, the more frequently a battery is fully discharged during normal operation, and subsequently recharged from the grid, the faster the consumer sees a return on their battery investment.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.” and is currently manager of programming environments at Sun Microsystems in Mountain View. “Or Mountain View, Calif.—began