ASU sets up supercomputer (The Tucson Citizen) MESA - Better

ASU sets up supercomputer (The Tucson Citizen)
MESA - Better designs for airplanes and automobiles, super-hard materials, transistors the size of molecules and better weather forecasts are among the developments that could emerge from a supercomputing center that opened yesterday at Arizona State University.

Get ready to pay more for plastic products (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Consumers could start paying more for everything from automobiles to lawn chairs, as prices of raw materials used to make plastics rise at a rapid clip.

Neck Deep in Toxic Gumbo - Independent Media TV (Independent Media TV)
As the government drags its feet, the unknown number of human bodies decomposing in the New Orleans floodwaters are becoming hosts for a horde of diseases. The bodies continue to fester and rot, potentially contaminating the city they used to call home.

Classic automobiles parade through history (Lansdale Reporter)
Hundreds of classic cars rumbled through downtown Lansdale Sunday as part of the borough s 17th annual car show and parade.

LiveDeal.com Shares Top 10 Tips for Selling Used Cars in Today's Buyer's Market (The Auto Channel)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 16 -- Employee discount pricing by the Big Three automakers and new deeper dealer discounts being piled on this fall, have led to a glut of used cars on the market, creating one of the best buyer's markets for used car shoppers in years.

Cost of keeping cool expected to heat up (Chicago Tribune)
Temperatures are starting to fall after one of Chicago's hottest summers, but prices for central air conditioners are forecast to climb. The reason? New federal energy regulations will make 90 percent of the systems now produced obsolete next year.

Advanced High Temperature Resistant Plastics Rapidly Replace Metal Motor and Gear Components (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
High temperature resistant plastics are increasingly being used in motor and gear parts -- hot fuel systems and air manifolds of automobiles, industrial machinery products, and aviation and marine engine segments -- environments that would have degraded previous generation polymers.