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Light-truck sales declined less during the current pandemic than car sales

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This note examines the sales of all new light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks) in the United States in March, April, and May 2020—the first three months of the current pandemic—and compares them with the sales in February 2020. The results are shown in the table below. in February to 78.3%

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Health Care System links PM 2.5 —Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. Previous studies have found that PM 2.5

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7 Scholarships Exclusively for Women Studying Engineering

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It awards US $2,500 to an IEEE student member who has completed two years of undergraduate study at an ABET-accredited school in the United States. The 2U Scholarship program is available only to students at George Washington University , American University , Syracuse University , Washington University in St.

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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million to begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting artificial fertilizers. Louis biologist Himadri B.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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The big-Mercury universe for 1964 included the top-grade Park Lane , the mid-level Montclair and the might-as-well-be-a-Ford-Galaxie Monterey. Most accounts of the origin of the Montclair name state that it was derived from the name of the closest affluent town to Ford's Mahwah Assembly plant in New Jersey. Louis on November 7, 1963.

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Founder of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Labs Dies at 88

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in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. During World War II, he had several assignments in the United States but because he was qualified as a sharpshooter, he eventually was deployed to France and Germany. After earning a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Washington University in St.

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Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

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Nissan LEAF sales in the United States are up by 335% year-over-year since the launch of the enhanced 2013 model in March. Nissan has sold 11,703 LEAFs in the US during the first 7 months of 2013—an increase of 230% from the 3,543 units for the same period in 2012. Top 15 LEAF market year-to-date in 2013. Earlier post.)

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