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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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Here's a car trivia question for you: what engine name went on to become the designation for a body style and then a car model name in its own right? Starting in 1958, Ford's new MEL ( M ercury- E dsel- L incoln) big-block V8 engine was given the Marauder name when installed in Mercury models. The answer is, of course, Marauder.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. Niyoyita, who attends classes remotely, is a process engineer at Africa Improved Foods , also in Kigali. It teaches leadership and other soft skills.

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A Serial Entrepreneur Shares Lessons Learned on His Road to Success

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His most recent venture, Insent , was a business-to-business chat platform based in Denver; it was acquired last year by software and data company ZoomInfo of Vancouver, Wash. FullContact , a software company in Denver, acquired Profoundis nine months later. “It But he says he didn’t really enjoy working for another company.

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Junkyard Find: 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Coupe

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Here's one of those cars, found in a Denver boneyard recently. The two-door was a credibly rakish personal luxury coupe for its time, and probably cannibalized some sales from the Cordoba. The base engine was a 225-cubic-inch Slant-6 rated at 110 horsepower and 180 pound-feet.

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

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engine (optional in the Aries and Reliant through 1985) was gone, replaced by a 2.5-liter My personal K-Car experience hasn't been as positive. 1986 was the first model year in which every Aries and Reliant got electronic fuel injection. liter Mitsubishi Astron aka "Hemi 2.6" liter Chrysler. This car has the base 2.2,

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Renewable oils company Solazyme enters oil & gas drilling market with Encapso lubricant

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Encapso’s efficacy has been demonstrated both in the lab and in the field in more than a dozen commercial wells in a number of basins including the Williston Basin, Denver-Julesburg, and the Permian Basin. This is often when drilling engineers find the most difficulty managing drilling friction. —Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson.

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Junkyard Find: 1983 Datsun 200SX Coupe

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Today's Junkyard Find , found in a yard just south of Denver , is a nicely preserved example of the final year of the S110 Silvia , as well as of the Datsun name. This engine was known as the Z22 , so its valve cover was entitled to a bit of Z-Car-referencing labeling. Under the hood, the '83 200SX got a 2.2-liter

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