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Oh Crap: Sewage Leak Causes Chaos on Connecticut Interstate

The Truth About Cars

A tractor-trailer leaking sewage onto a portion of I-95 in Connecticut resulted in numerous crashes and some impromptu off-roading this week. Vehicular casualties included a couple of totaled police vehicles that found themselves at the mercy of a truck sliding through human waste.& on July 17th near Bridgeport.

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

Cars That Think

After all, what use was a screen that could show documents in multiple type styles and a network that could transmit them from place to place without some means of printing them efficiently? Even today, he said, he receives laser-printed documents from universities in which he can recognize the Dover typefaces. Alvy Ray Smith. “No

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

Green Car Congress

It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). The WCI released a design document laying out its basic program parameters in September 2008. Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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