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IEEE Spectrum June 2007 John Blau	Carbon Caps Coming For European Cars Transportation is the one sector of the European economy where carbon emissions have been rising rapidly. A strict emissions cap of 120 grams would rule out most models that carmakers Audi, BMW, and Mercedes now produce, not to mention Porsche, the biggest carbon emitter.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Paul McFedries	The Hobbyist Renaissance We're now firmly entrenched in what some people are calling the age of tech DIY, in which geeks of all persuasions and both sexes engage in various forms of digital tinkering and hardware hacking.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Justin Mullins	LEDs Could Borrow From Beetles A synthetic version of the Cyphochilus beetle shell could one day be used to make white LEDs more efficient for tasks such as household lighting.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Peter Fairley	Syn City Could Zaozhuang's hybrid chemical and power plants help clean up China's energy sector?
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Sandra Upson	How to See the Unseen City Wealthy cities are increasingly facing a premium on space. As metropolitan areas grow denser and richer, the urban underground is likewise poised to mirror the congestion above.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Harry Goldstein	How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Jean Kumagai	How to Master a Seismic Disaster When the next big earthquake hits Tokyo, engineers bet even a few seconds can save lives.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Willie D. Jones	How to Build a Mile-High Skyscraper When cities can't build out, they build up. Here's how modern technology makes the building of a mile-high skyscraper possible.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Sweet & Cass	How to Fight Crime in Real Time New York City's Real Time Crime Center enables officers to extract information from integrated databases and send it immediately to investigators in the field. Displays are tailored to the situation at hand.
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Kenneth R. Foster	Semcad X Jungfrau Marks the Spot (the Hot Spot) Now you can predict not only how much radio energy will be absorbed by human tissue, but how much hotter the tissue will get.
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