And GE (NYSE:GE) recently announced that it will be partnering with the City of Yangzhou to build a smart grid demonstration center.

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We are taking a closer look at the F-35 fighter jet at Lockheed Martin's Fighter Demonstration Center just outside our nation's capital, but, being in the middle of a corporate complex, there's no actual Lightning II on hand.

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As a demonstration project, the center will likely do more long-term good for the planet than those demonstrations Backus helped organize back in the '60s.

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The complex includes a training center for farmers, a demonstration plot and research and tissue-culture labs.

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"Our goal is to make expert knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime, " said Dr Wolfram at the demonstration at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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Police and soldiers used tear gas to quell a sometimes violent demonstration near Cairo's Tahrir Square -- the symbolic center of Egypt's revolution.

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The center is set up with rows of practice bars and stools facing a demonstration bar stocked with spirits.

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