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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Statewide Paratransit Bus Hybrid Program: Purchase 31 paratransit hybrid buses to replace 31 gas and diesel vehicles.

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

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In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Boeing , with similar goals, announced that it would work with the National Bureau of Standards to lead the creation of an OSI protocol stack for technical and office environments, later to be named Technical and Office Protocols (TOP). Hewlett-Packard , and IBM.

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