The only major American automaker to escape the government bailout from earlier this year, Ford Motor Company announced today that it will be upping its production numbers through the end of the year. Citing increased dales from the “Cash for Clunkers” rebate program (that was recently extended with an additional $2 billion in government funding), [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 13th, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
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After its brief but highly publicized 40-day bankruptcy, General Motors has announced its new line of vehicles for 2010, with much of the emphasis centered around a new plug-in electric vehicle aptly titled the “Volt”. After shutting down the Pontiac and Hummer brands and closing a substantial number of dealerships to cut overhead, G.M. has [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News on August 11th, 2009 @ 1:15 pm
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.