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Israel going green with electric car - Every subscriber will get a car, a battery and access to a national network of recharging outlets across Israel, as well as stations that will swap a dead battery for a fresh one, or even another car, whenever needed.

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He's been named the world's "most durable DJ" by the Guinness Book of World Records. Hong Kong veteran Ray Cordeiro, better known as 'Uncle Ray' to his listeners, has spent six decades entertaining listeners while rubbing elbows with some of music's most famous and prolific artists.

Nyro was born of Jewish and Italian parents in the Bronx in 1947. Her father was a jazz trumpeter and even outside her home, music was a constant visceral presence, like air or electricity. "I would go out singing, as a teenager, to a party or out on the street, because there were harmony groups there, and that was one of the joys of my youth," she wrote in the liner notes to "Stoned Soul Picnic." The doo-wop and girl-group rock that filled the streets of New York then informed her songs (an influence paid homage to in the '71 release "Gonna Take a Miracle"), but so did the jazz she grew up with, the folk she heard in the coffee shops of Greenwich Village, gospel, show tunes, soul music -- Nyro's music was like the polyglot city from which it sprang, rich and surprising with an odd hint of danger.