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BAE Systems reports more than 3,500 HybriDrive series hybrid systems delivered or ordered worldwide

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Buses powered by HybriDrive currently transport nearly two million passengers a day in cities across North America and the UK including Houston, London, Manchester, New York, Ottawa, Oxford, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and others. Atlanta, Ga. and Everett, Wash., Atlanta, Ga. and Everett, Wash., and suburban Chicago by the end of 2011.

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Book Review: Public Transportation: A Children’s Book by Paul Comfort

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The Tom Thumb Steam Train, part of the B&O Railroad in Baltimore, Maryland, is the first character and dates back to 1830. Hard to believe that subways go back even further, to the London Tube in 1863! You could look at the pictures and point with a one-year-old or use it as a stepping-off point for a teenager.

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Scientists synthesize first functional designer chromosome in yeast

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Han, Michalis Hadjithomas, Jennifer Tullman, Katrina Caravelli, Kimberly Cirelli, Zheyuan Guo, Viktoriya London, Apurva Yeluru, Sindurathy Murugan, Karthikeyan Kandavelou, Nicolas Agier, Gilles Fischer, Kun Yang, J. Linder, Jonathan Ling, Jaime Liu, Jonathan Liu, Mariya London, Henry Ma, Jessica Mao, Jessica E. Scheifele, Eric M.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. They had spent the war innovating new, deadlier weaponry. When I first spoke with.