Word: expo
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...farm show looked like a state fair but felt like an industry expo, with barkers urging visitors to increase productivity or cut costs rather than ride a pony or eat corn dogs. John Deere salesmen showed off their largest machinery ever, including a 530-horsepower tractor and a combine that costs $410,000 fully equipped. At the Firestone tent, a rep said the company is preparing a 91-in. (230 cm) farm tire, taller than Yao Ming. TopCon Precision Agriculture exhibited GPS gadgets that adjust your spraying and watering according to the topography of your fields and can even steer...
What gets you in Shanghai isn’t that between 1992 and today they’ve built twice as many skyscrapers as exist in New York City. Or that another 1,000 are slated for completion for the World Expo in 2010. (Construction is literally taking place around the clock on its tallest building, the Shanghai World Financial Center...
...taking place in the subject's teaching, with existing undergraduate and graduate studio-glass programs being supplemented by new courses in cities including Hangzhou, Nanjing, Xi'an and Guangzhou. An ambitious new glass-art museum is also being planned for Shanghai, in time for the city's 2010 World Expo...
...band members balanced a broken microphone on top of a bucket—using duct tape to keep the contraption in place. By all accounts, the performance was well-received, and within months, Plan B’s members would be the youngest performers at the Ladyfest East expo in Brooklyn, N.Y., a festival dedicated to supporting women artists. Plan B still screams to much acclaim at Cambridge clubs and campus events—though the band’s name continues to perplex some audience members. “Fellow students ask if we’re affiliated with...
...there was no way that was ever going to happen with Penny Arcade." Now their strip, which stars two young men who are obsessed with video games, has 4 million readers a month. Penny Arcade has a staff of eight. Holkins and Krahulik run an annual convention, Penny Arcade Expo, which is expected to draw 20,000 people this summer, and a charity called Child's Play that donates video games to children's hospitals. Last year they raised more than $1 million...