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X Prize For a 100-MPG Car
Heinen writes in about the X Prize Foundation, which spurred innovation by offering US $10 million for the first privately built spacecraft. The Foundation now plans to offer millions for the first practical car that increases mileage five-fold. The specs for the competition are out in draft form amd call for cars in two categories that are capable of 100 MPG in tests to be run in 2009. The categories are: 4-passenger/4-wheel; and 2-passenger/unspecified wheels. The cars must be manufacturable, not "science projects. The prize is expected to top $10 million. The X Prize Foundation says that so far it has received more than 1,000 inquiries from possible competitors.
I'm not even looking for typos.. I just find myself having to re-read the summaries three, four, and five times. Typos that lead to incoherent sentences, unclosed quotations, and more. How many grade school grammar mistakes can be made in a single paragraph?
Only to Mr. Freud.
That's Doctor Freud to you.
(Someone will probably correct my spelling with some German characters that are not commonly used in the US even for foreign names. That's karma for you!)
Infuriate left and right
Doc Siggi lived 'round the corner from my place, so I call him whatever I want!
It's spelled Doktor in German, so it's close enough. Most "international" words are quite easy to translate, just replace every c in English with a k for German.
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