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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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Pedott test-marketed the Great American Turn-On at People’s Drug in Washington, D.C. In the 1990s, he became known for his long-running legal battle against Universal Manufacturing Corp. He attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, majoring in journalism, and got his first job in radio, working on a local children’s show.

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Should Right-to-Repair Laws Extend to Bionic Body Parts?

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Robert Sparrow, Monash University For consumer electronics, there’s a lot of activity around right-to-repair laws : Europe’s first such regulations took effect in 2021 , requiring manufacturers to make parts available to third-party repair shops for up to 10 years. And, as Spectrum discovered, medical regulators aren’t yet on the bandwagon.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. After he was discharged, he continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After he was discharged, he continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Paul, Minn. government.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Binghamton University (State University of New York). Tesla Motors, Inc.

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

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The Musée Marmottan , which owns “Impression, Sunrise,” has agreed to lend it to the Orsay until July for its exhibition “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism” and to the National Gallery in Washington where the exhibition travels in September. A favorite of locals (about €20 per person for lunch). 13, 1872.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. He believes “ monolithic vehicle design ”—where people buy one car to fit all of their needs—is outdated. Washington, D.C.: Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica. Click to enlarge.

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Networks that link personal computers in offices. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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