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...competition is fierce. The fifth Defense Expo held this week in New Delhi attracted hundreds of exhibitors from 39 countries including Israel and France, both gaining fast on Russia in arms sales to India. Many of the foreign firms emphasize that they want to partner with Indian companies and could set up manufacturing operations there - if the orders are big enough. State-run Israel Aerospace Industries has just entered a joint venture with Indian industrial conglomerate Tata Group to produce drones, radar and electronic warfare systems...
...architectural firm of Graduate School of Design Professor Alex Krieger won a competition to redesign the Shanghai Bund, a stretch of historic buildings along the Huangpu river, in time for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai...
Krieger called a 2010 completion date ambitious. “They will certainly try their darndest,” he said when asked whether the design would be completed in time for the Expo...
...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...