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China issues draft guidelines to rein in lithium battery industry – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Existing factories in protected areas should be shut down or “strictly control their scale and gradually move away”, according to the document. The guidelines also urge firms against building production facilities on protected farmland or ecologically important areas.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. The thumb drive was all that—and more. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Cheap pays off Although the Adobe group made some key technical breakthroughs, three other components were necessary to make PostScript a runaway success not just in low-volume professional publishing but in the high-volume office environment. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co. What’s NeXT?

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

The WCI released a design document laying out its basic program parameters in September 2008. nationals and legal residents. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. WCI covers seven U.S. Another six U.S. Financing Investments and Other Public Expenditures. Flexible Debt Capital.

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