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Nissan to test African demand for its e-Power hybrid vehicle – ET Auto

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This year Nissan will export the South African built Navara pickup trucks to new markets of Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia and Egypt, Nissan Africa product Marketing Director Stefan Haasbroek said. According to Nissan, elsewhere in the world the global motorization average is 182 vehicles per 1,000 people versus 42 per 1,000 in Africa.

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Radar Technology Pioneer Merrill Skolnik Dies at 94

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He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. He helped establish electrical engineering graduate programs in Egypt, France, and Tunisia. Poloujadoff earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1955 from Supélec (now part of CentraleSupélec ) in Paris.

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So Close to Sicily, So Far From the Crowds

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For years I had been hearing about the island of Pantelleria, the craggy, hard-to-get-to Eden with middle-of-nowhere tranquillity that sits 89 miles southwest of the island of Sicily and about 50 miles east of Tunisia. And the wind, well, it’s part of the package. Pantelleria is part of the province of Sicily.) It was hot.

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