The E-Bugster could park right next to that Tesla.

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Efforts to make Band-e-Amir a national park began in the 1970s but were put on hold through the decades of war that ravaged the country.

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In 2009, Afghanistan declared Band-e-Amir, a collection of six mineral-rich, piercingly blue lakes, a national park in hopes of protecting and promoting its landscape.

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"The name is park, the government is happy to call it a park, but it's not a park yet, " said Band-e-Amir resident Jaan Been.

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PrettyPark spreads itself via an e-mail attachment bearing the icon of a character from South Park, a popular cartoon series.

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Exhibit 3: Wooed by a half-dozen VCs, David Secunda, chief executive of an adventure-gear e-commerce site, picked CMGI's AtVentures in Menlo Park, Calif.

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E-Town, it has the sweeping asphalt vistas of a suburban office park, around blocks of reflective-glass buildings, occupied by Nokia, Bosch, and other corporations.

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Jack Sheng, an e-commerce-company owner who bought a Nissan Leaf last year, says electric vehicles should be able to park free in all eight lots, not just the two with charging stations.

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Behind a high fence a robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride. (See video below.) The robot, made by Menlo Park, Calif.

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The e-petition was started by Stone town councillor Rob Kenney after "mixed-use development" was mentioned for the park in the Local Plan.

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