Word: tradeshow
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...facilities across the country (not including the most important buildings, such as the Capitol and White House). As the GAO's Mark Goldstein told lawmakers recently, "I think we would be able to say that FPS is simply an agency in crisis." (Watch a video of the homeland security tradeshow...
...wildly eclectic mix of participants on the panel, convened at the annual publishing industry tradeshow Book Expo America, included indie creators Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve) and Charles Burns (Black Hole) with superhero/pulp auteur Frank Miller (Sin City) and novelist-turned-superhero-comics writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis), who sat next to comic autobiographer and movie celebrity Harvey Pekar (American Splendor.) Thanks to Pekar's irrepressible personality, things got a little warm when he denounced superhero books as "escapist" and worthless when there were more important things to spend your energy on like "getting Bush out of office." Meltzer later gave...
Although this is not my haunt, per se—I am spending the summer working in finance—I was thrilled at the opportunity to experience this mega tradeshow and all it had to offer my less-than-secret love of dorky techno-gadgets. What I quickly learned, though, was that the gadgets were neat, but the show itself was fascinating...
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