Thanks to that push, the Energy Information Administration estimated that the industry would set a record for total wind power installations in the U.S., potentially topping 12, 000 megawatts of installed capacity.

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Juniper, which did no business for the Air Force two years ago, initially got the work thanks to its technology for converting information into packets (the chunks of information that flow through the Internet).

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But Google may have done ol' Fred (who, incidentally, published "The Trivia Encyclopedia, " a compendium of facts and tidbits that has kept information fans busy for more than three decades) one better, thanks to its latest offering: fun facts.

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