Inching Up an Ice Highway in a 70-Ton Truck
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ON THE ICE ROAD, Northwest Territories -- Elden Pashovitz eased his big truck and 28 tons of aviation fuel onto the ice of Tibbitt Lake and set out in low gear for his destination, dozens of ponds and lakes away.
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By Jason Gertzen, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 20--Scientists visited Kansas City last week to show off a truck powered with the help of baked corn cobs.
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By Bob Fernandez The Philadelphia Inquirer  Cars and trucks whiz along Interstate 95 outside CMP Technologies. The blurring vehicles are a metaphor for the company's fast-moving business.  The Rohm & Haas Co.
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Bitter cold that our New England winters can be, we long ago adopted a provincial antidote for the numbing of toes and the shortage of breath: metal grinding against ice and hard rubber hitting against wood.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Heavy snow in the Andes left 6,100 trucks stuck yesterday along the main mountain pass between Argentina and Chile, a transportation official said.
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A faster-than-expected thaw of the Arctic is likely to open legendary short-cut routes between the Pacific and the Atlantic, but experts say icebergs and high costs will prevent any transpolar shipping boom.
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The Port of Oakland is in the process of rolling out an RFID system that will track the movement of all trucks that enter its facilities.
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By Chris Woodyard From all-terrain vehicles to snowblowers, makers of powered outdoor equipment are joining the auto industry in looking at alternative energy to deal with increasingly tough environmental rules. But early efforts haven't produced rousing results.
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By Matt Bewley, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun.
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A refresher course on getting better mileage
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First it was falling rocks -- and now it&#39;s falling snow that&#39;s keeping a Colorado highway closed. The snow is delaying repairs to a section of Interstate 70 -- where boulders as big as vans rained down on the road on Thanksgiving Day.
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A large network of waterways helps carry ice from the center of Antarctica to the ocean, scientists say, in a finding that may help clarify how global warming will affect the world's sea levels.
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 17--SOLDOTNA -- After two decades holding the line at 35-horsepower motorboats on the lower Kenai River, regulators propose throttling up.
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Smaller engines, lighter vehicles and lots of turbochargers and hybrids should do the trick.
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MINNEAPOLIS - From snowmobiling on alfalfa to strapping on cross-country skis with wheels, Minnesotans are finding ways of coping with a frustrating lack of snow.
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By Cornell Christensen  Factory Butte has been enjoyed by photographers, adventuresome motorcyclists, ATV riders and windshield gazers from U-24 for decades -- and Bureau of Land Management's new rules for off- highway vehicle use will keep it that way.
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Ice Cube's road trip managed to survive some wintry weather.