Imperial Valley News Center
Trial of Former Chadian President Hissene Habre
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- Written by State Department
Washington, DC - The United States commends the Government of Senegal and the African Union for bringing former Chadian President Hissène Habré before the Extraordinary African Chambers of Senegal. Following a 19-month investigation, Habré has been charged with torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, including murder and enforced disappearances.
New Study Shows Rising Use of Cell Phones While Driving
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- Written by CHP
Sacramento, California - The Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and the California Highway Patrol (CHP) today released a new study showing a 39 percent increase in the percentage of California drivers seen using a cell phone while driving.
California Schools Cash In By Taking The Caltrans “Distraction School Zone Challenge”
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Redding, California - Three California schools have cashed in on a new Caltrans highway safety campaign designed to educate students about the dangers of distracted driving in work zones. The Distraction School Zone Challenge is part of Caltrans’ “Be Work Zone Alert” campaign.
Siting wind farms more quickly, cheaply
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - When a power company wants to build a new wind farm, it generally hires a consultant to make wind speed measurements at the proposed site for eight to 12 months. Those measurements are correlated with historical data and used to assess the site’s power-generation capacity.
Toward cheaper water treatment - Fracking matters
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- Written by Rob Matheson
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” produces a lot of wastewater. Drilling one well requires millions of gallons of water that’s injected into the ground to loosen rocks and release oil. While some is reused, much of the produced water is discarded into deep injection wells, and clean water is purchased again and again.
Solving mysteries of conductivity in polymers
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- Written by David L. Chandler
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Materials known as conjugated polymers have been seen as very promising candidates for electronics applications, including capacitors, photodiodes, sensors, organic light-emitting diodes, and thermoelectric devices. But they’ve faced one major obstacle: Nobody has been able to explain just how electrical conduction worked in these materials, or to predict how they would behave when used in such devices.
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