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New lightweight metals institute will be headquartered in Detroit

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The new $148-million lightweight metals manufacturing institute announced in February by President Obama ( earlier post ) will locate in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, officials from the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) and the city announced today.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington. He was part of a team there developing missile and rocket systems, including the Atlas missile, which was used in Friendship 7. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods.

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OSU study: Low-income, black neighborhoods still hit hard by air pollution

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The six-state area analyzed in the Ohio State study, home to many aging and shuttered industrial plants, includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Ard, who is part of Ohio State’s Institute for Population Research, recently published a textbook chapter focusing on this work.

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The EV Professor

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For the most part, the students drove the Teslas around campus, but often “They’d go out into the city streets as well,” Cox said. “I Cox’s efforts to promote EVs have included a number of EVNEBRASKA chapter events and have even extended to his own neighborhood, where “We’ve hosted a whole lot of ride and drives at our home,” he said.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. My University of South Carolina colleague James Risk grew up in Mooresville, Indiana, a small town southwest of Indianapolis. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong. vonguard/Wikipedia. It could be.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

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This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. Just as important, Bright is going to try to keep the car economically priced, in part by reducing the size of the battery.

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