Wired News: Engineers are developing adapter kits for hybrid vehicles that will increase their efficiency to 100 miles per gallon by powering them solely on electricity during short trips. Today’s hybrid vehicles use electricity stored in batteries to assist the gasoline engine in acceleration and to completely power the vehicle while idling or at steady
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Nov 2005
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Nov 2005
Americans drive on the wrong side of the road! This makes it extremely confusing and dangerous for normal people to cross the road – Darwinism in reverse. And everyone here drives automatics. Where I come from, automatics are for girls who can’t get their head around how a stick works. You can’t pop a decent
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Nov 2005
South Africa – The Good News: A pioneering South African cellphone bank is changing the lives of South Africa’s “unbanked and underbankedâ€, tackling unemployment and leading the world’s emerging markets towards convenient, affordable banking. South Africa has 16 million unbanked or “underbanked†citizens – a huge chunk of the nation that is largely excluded from
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Nov 2005