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Hyundai Shows Refreshed Elantra N in Shanghai

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The sleek and smooth nose has a light bar bookended by new headlamps (maybe Mercury was simply ahead of its time) and appropriately grumpy angles have been given to the bumper and intake areas. inline-four, along with appropriately entertaining crackle-n-bang settings for the exhaust.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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You notice the smell of smoke, and when you try to turn on your bedside light you discover that the power is out. Just thinking about the crew of people needed to tramp around to change all those batteries is exhausting, and to actually do it would be prohibitively expensive and impractical. You roust your family and run to the car.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Lincoln Mark Series Cars, Feeling Continental (Part XLVIII)

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Most notable were the larger revised lighting elements at the front end. Other changes to the rear lamp included a relocation and redesign of the reversing lights. In 1997 the reversing lamps moved outward and onto the portion of the light assembly in the fender. Today we’d call this ambient lighting.& Intentional?

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury. Another major difference is that the intensity of x-ray scattering increases with the electron density of a material; light elements such as hydrogen and lithium thus make very little contribution to scattering. Specs for the 1.4 MW protons beam: 1 GeV, 1.4 mA, 60 Hz rate.

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Ford Making Aggressive Push With EcoBoost and Technologies Such as Ti-VCT for Improved Fuel Economy; Roadmap for Future Generations of EcoBoost Highlights Role as Company Strategy as Well as Product

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This technology also optimizes phasing on both intake and exhaust camshafts by spinning them ever so slightly to advance or retard valve timing, resulting in improved throttle response at initial throttle tip-in, reduced emissions at part throttle and enhanced efficiency at higher rpm. in the new Fiesta ( earlier post ). Click to enlarge.