The car company might prefer to produce its rear-view mirrors in-house, for example, perhaps by buying the mirror company.

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Meanwhile, many baseball fans have already begun their annual pilgrimages to Florida and Arizona spring-training sites, the Clemens fiasco already in their rear-view mirrors.

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Things, it turns out, are all too often discovered by accident--but we don't see that when we look at history in our rear-view mirrors.

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Another company created by Cambridge University Engineering Department and supported by Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre is working on a hi-tech replacement for rear-view mirrors on vehicles.

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