Nairobi/Juba, Jan 30 (DPA) Sunday, January 30, 2011 –> Just short of 99 percent of Southern Sudanese have voted to secede from the north and form an independent state, according to preliminary results released Sunday. January’s referendum was enshrined in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war in Sudan between the mainly Muslim north and Christian and Animist south. The Southern Sudan Referendum Commission said on its website that with all the votes counted, some 98.83 percent of almost four million voters had opted for independence. The turnout far…
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Novak Djokovic hit passing shots and looping lobs with equal perfection to overwhelm Andy Murray 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday, winning his second Australian Open title and extending Britain’s near 75-year drought in men’s singles Grand Slams. (Jan. 30)
Continue reading …Americans in Egypt should leave the country ASAP, said the US Embassy in Cairo today, joining a flurry of nations to call for their citizens to flee as Egypt enters its sixth day of protests. The move comes, notes the AP, as Egyptians and foreigners alike clog Egypt’s waning number…
Continue reading …Chrysler shows off Ram plug-in hybrid electric truck, won’t sell it to you
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There’s already a few hybrid trucks on the market (most notably from GM), but true plug-in hybrid electric trucks are another matter altogether. Chrysler now looks set to change that, however — at least in a small way — with its new Ram plug-in hybrid that’s set to roll out to fleet operators this summer. It was just unveiled at the Washington D.C. Auto Show, and it pairs a 12 kWh battery pack from Canadian battery-maker Electrovaya with Chrysler’s own 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 engine, which Electrovaya says will allow for up to 20 miles of driving on electricity only. Unfortunately, there’s no word on any plans to actually make the truck available to individual consumers, but Chrysler does seem to at least be optimistic about hybrid trucks in general, with a company spokesman noting that half-ton pickups are naturally much better at carrying a battery pack than a car, and that trucks work better as hybrid vehicle platforms. Continue reading Chrysler shows off Ram plug-in hybrid electric truck, won’t sell it to you Chrysler shows off Ram plug-in hybrid electric truck, won’t sell it to you originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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An Al Jazeera online producer in Cairo captures video of the jets flying overhead on the afternoon of January 30, 2011, as citizens patrol their neighborhood.
Continue reading …The FBI gets called in to investigate some serious stuff—terrorism, drug trafficking, espionage. And now, the search for a hockey puck. Not just any hockey puck, but the six ounces of elusive rubber that Patrick Kane slipped in the back of the net to give the Chicago Blackhawks an…
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Tet offensive begins; Hitler becomes German chancellor; Franklin Delano Roosevelt born. (Jan. 30)
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Photo: SFD National Association of Sustainable Fashion Designers ( SFD ), a non-profit founded by Jamila Payne in 2008, is launching a year-long webinar series with Fair Trade USA and Eco Fashion World , called “Fashion Ideas,” dedicated to helping fashion entrepreneurs flourish in the sustainable fashion sector. The upcoming session, taking pace on February 9, 2011 at 6pm (EST), will focus on how to produce fair trade clothing. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The real Mark Zuckerberg stepped forward on last night’s Saturday Night Live, alongside the guy who played him in The Social Network and the guy who plays him on SNL. “Awkward!” cried Andy Samberg, skipping off when Zuckerberg came out. Left alone, Eisenberg asks Zuck what he thought of the,…
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Photo: Alex Davies At the Meet My Project design exposition in Paris this week, simplicity was a major theme: boiling down products to their basics to get the most out of the materials used to make them. That’s especially true of the work presented by Naruse Inokuma Architects , a young Japanese design office. The group created the From One Sheet chair (even the name is simple and straightforward): an armchair made from a single sheet of plywood, cut, bent, and held together by a single steel rod. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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