February 9th, 2010 by admin
Toyota has told dealers it’s preparing a plan to repair the brakes on thousands of hybrid Prius cars in the U.S.
Public awareness of the problem “has prompted considerable customer concern, speculation, and media attention due to the significance of the Prius image,” Carter said in the e-mail. “We want to assure our dealers that we are moving rapidly to provide a solution for your existing customers.
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February 9th, 2010 by admin
The Japanese government has confirmed five new accidents involving Toyota Motors Prius hybrids and will urge the troubled car giant to investigate the cases, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Five of them were actual crashes in which the drivers claimed the brakes did not work properly, the daily said, adding that the ministry would urge the company to launch an investigation.
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February 9th, 2010 by admin
Companies like to call their new gadgets revolutionary. Amazon did it when it introduced its Kindle e-book reader in 2007, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs used the word often last week while unveiling his companys new iPad - a tablet computer that also doubles as an e-reader. Jobs even threw in a “magical” here and there when describing the device.
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February 9th, 2010 by admin
The anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided Saturday in the icy waters off Antarctica - the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet.
The U.S.-based activist group Sea Shepherd, which sends vessels to confront the Japanese fleet each year, said the Japanese ship deliberately rammed the Bob Barker - named after the U.
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February 9th, 2010 by admin
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA is about to launch the mother of all Super Bowl pregame shows with the space shuttle Endeavour, which is poised to blast off before dawn on Sunday morning.
“Its going to be a special day,” said shuttle launch director Mike Leinbach. “Were going to launch Sunday morning and were going to watch the big game Sunday night.
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February 9th, 2010 by admin
It may be one small flip, but the coin that will decide whether the Indianapolis Colts or New Orleans Saints possess the ball at the start of Sundays Super Bowl XLIV will have already made a giant leap when it hits the field at Miamis Sun Life Stadium.
The coins spaceflight was revealed in advance of a Jan.
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February 9th, 2010 by admin
Japanese media sharply criticized Toyota’s president Saturday as offering a delayed and unconvincing explanation for the massive car recall that has sullied the world’s biggest automaker and Japanese corporate icon.
Toyoda’s appearance before reporters at a company office in the central Japanese city of Nagoya made front pages of the country’s leading newspapers but won no praise.
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February 9th, 2010 by admin
Scientists have discovered the female sex hormone progesterone in a walnut tree, shaking up whats known about the different between plants and animals.
“The significance of the unequivocal identification of progesterone cannot be overstated,” write Guido F. Pauli and colleagues in the American Chemical Societys Journal of Natural Products.
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February 9th, 2010 by admin
An “extremely dangerous” blizzard expected to dump record amounts of snow swept across much of the eastern United States, closing down the US capital and threatening to trap millions indoors for days.
The storm, dubbed “Snowpocalypse” and “Snowmageddon” by many locals, stretched from Indiana to Pennsylvania and into parts of New York and North Carolina, creating treacherous travel conditions, shutting Washington area airports and leading several states to declare emergencies.
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February 9th, 2010 by admin
Two titans have braced for Super Bowl weekend, but theyre not competing for the NFL championship.
AT&T has rolled in three mobile cell sites - used to relay cell phone signals between towers - to boost network capacity around Miamis Sun Life Stadium, and has another mobile cell site to cover the Fort Lauderdale hotels where the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts are staying.
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