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High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

Cars That Think

Blind Industries and Services of Maryland , a not-for-profit organization in Baltimore that provides training and career resources to the state’s visually impaired. National Industries for the Blind , an employment placement service in Baltimore for the visually impaired. They tried many iterations before they had a working prototype.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

As a senior in high school, Smith entered an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginners (IEEE) competition in Baltimore describing a project on computers and small EVs. His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University. You could buy an LEV, but you could only get it serviced at the store you bought it from.

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

For example, an area pest control company has pledged to buy up to 150 light weight plug-in trucks, once they are produced. EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January

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Help! Megabus Canceled My Trip But Won’t Refund the Booking Fee.

Baua Electric

Jeff Sovern, a professor of consumer protection law at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, told me in an email that if “the contract is ambiguous, the ambiguity is construed to benefit the party that accepted the contract — here, the consumer.” But, he added, “I don’t know if a court would buy that interpretation.”

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA., Irvine, CA.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

Cars That Think

The first node of the ARPANET was installed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969. To sit at a terminal and with a few keystrokes be connected through the TIP, to the ARPANET, and then to applications running on computers at dozens of universities and research facilities must have felt like a visit to an alien world.

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