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The first pursuit-rated hybrid police car will help police catch the bad guys while it helps save taxpayers thousands in fuel costs, not to mention the environment. Ford is launching this dynamic new vehicle as part of its $4.5 billion investment in electric and hybrid vehicles. In the next five years, Ford is introducing 13
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The Hotel Wilshire in Los Angeles is one of the growing number of older buildings rehabbed and retrofitted into a modern and LEED ceritified hotel. This is a 74-room boutique hotel in the Kimpton collection. Kimpton is one of my favorite hotel companies, because its brands, including Monaco, have both a strong green streak and
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If you think the steepest streets in the USA are in San Fransisco, you would be wrong. A list of the ten steepest streets by an outfit called Infographics rates the Waipio Road in Hawaii, in the historic Waipio Valley, as the steepest, at an astounding 45% angle. And according to this list, Los Angeles
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