Word: expos
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...supercar could not blind a visitor to the fact that there was far less interest on both sides of the cash register. A glitzy show designed to part Russia's well-to-do from their cash, the fair is usually spread out through three halls in Moscow's Crocus Expo center - this year it took up only two. With fewer vendors and wider aisles between the stands, the small number of visitors seemed even more sparse. "There are much fewer people this year," said Dzhasur Madzhidov, a carpet salesman with Persian World, a Tokyo-based seller. Normally, "we would have...
...flush or not to flush. That was the question that designers and ecologists were asking each other this week as hundreds of people - who spend a lot of time thinking about these things - convened for the annual World Toilet Summit and Expo in Macau...
...World Toilet Summit and Expo is like the Star Trek Convention of the waste management and sanitation world. Toilets on show run the gamut from a cardboard box complete with a hole, plastic bag and pouch of waterless magic pathogen-busting dust ($50), to a high-tech 'uber-toilet,' featuring an in-seat warmer/cooler, male and female water jets, an in-bowl light (why, oh why?) and a USB port so you can connect your mp3 player for your soothing tune of choice...
...from plumbers to bankers - gathered with a common purpose: finding a new job. Almost all "were skilled, professional people," says Stephen McLarnon, who runs the firm that put on the event, and they were "looking to make a committed move." And a long-distance one. At the Down Under Expo, a forum for recruitment agencies and immigration officials, the prize for job hunters was a new start, not in Ireland, but in Australia or New Zealand...
...Shanghai hopes to throw a lavish party to end all parties: the World Expo. World fairs have lost their luster since the wondrous days of London's Crystal Palace, Chicago and New York City. Who even remembers where and when the last Expo was held? (It was in 2005, in Aichi, Japan - thanks, Google.) But Shanghai is determined to revitalize the Expo. While Beijing threw an efficient if, ultimately, rather empty Olympics - because of visa restrictions that kept out many tourists along with potential demonstrators - you can bet that Shanghai will give a warmer welcome to the world. After...