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Tesla says it will use the loans to support two specific projects, including the U.S.-based production, engineering and assembly of the Model S, an all-electric family sedan. The Model S assembly plant will employ about 1,000 workers in Southern California. "We're already engineering the Model S, a seven-seater family sedan that will have a base price of $49,900 after a federal tax credit that will [over the longer term] cost the equivalent of a car that retails for $35,000, given the relatively expensive cost of gasoline vs. electricity," says Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla...
Fisker plans to use $169.3 million from the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program for engineering-integration costs as it works with suppliers to complete the Karma. However, the second stage includes a $359.36 million loan tied to developing and manufacturing a less expensive Fisker hybrid in the U.S., which has been dubbed Project Nina. His new company expects to build between 75,000 to 100,000 of these highly efficient vehicles starting in late 2012; the second-generation Fisker will be a relative bargain, with a price tag around $40,000. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...vaccine produced a strong antibody response in 38% of the 55 people who received all five doses. When antibody levels were highest - during weeks 9 through 16 of the trial - these participants used significantly less cocaine (as measured by urine samples taken three times a week) than either the placebo group or those who did not produce sufficient antibodies. Overall, cocaine use was reduced by at least half in 53% of the people who produced a strong antibody response, compared with 23% of those who had a weaker antibody response. That's far from abstinence, although reduction in drug use...
Another issue is that the vaccine would require booster shots to maintain a consistent level of antibodies, so Volkow suggests that a successful vaccine would in theory be most useful for relapse prevention, rather than to initiate abstinence. "If you give it to someone who has gone through rehab and is trying to stay clean and relapses, the vaccine will be able to interfere with that relapse and that will be incredibly important," she says. When former drug abusers attempt to use "just once," it often leads rapidly back to full addiction, a cycle that could perhaps be curbed...
...Alexander Karpov, director of the EKOM Center, says there is no economic reason for Gazprom to mar the cityscape. It could easily house its offices, he says, in a building that follows the city's rules for architectural preservation. The land-use committee's vote last week, which city councilor Malkov calls a "farce," granted the Okhta Center a unique exemption to these rules, approving a design four times taller than is normally permitted. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...