Kramer says he spent a year remastering the old analog tapes, using state-of-the-art digital technology to clean up the sound.

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But on Tuesday, the X Prize Foundation awarded more a million dollars for a more down-to-earth innovation: technology to clean up oil spills.

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Chrysler also has stepped up to the technology with a clean-diesel version of the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, its most popular SUV.

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Politicians and everybody else involved have to realize that America is playing catch-up because its dawdling has ceded much of the clean technology market to China, South Korea, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany.

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Two music directors, including the 85-year-old music maestro Naushad, have been brought in to rework and clean up original songs with new generation technology.

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