It will be at least two years before the new system bears fruit: The Ford Futura is the first of as many as 10 new Ford, Lincoln and Mercury models to be built off the same underpinning used for the Mazda 6 midsize sedan. (Ford has a controlling stake in Mazda.) In all, Ford's domestic brands plan to introduce 65 new or redesigned vehicles in the next five years.

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The early fruit was the Bretton Woods monetary system, which established the rules governing commercial relations between the big industrial nations.

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This uses bar-codes to track fruit and vegetables through the distribution system.

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Robotics: Six presenting firms offer robotic and software systems to maximize yield and productivity including Energid Technologies that has developed a robotic citrus harvesting system that automatically finds and removes fruit at a lower cost than manual harvesting, and Vision Robotics that will use stereo vision-based robots to pick, prune and other tasks on specialty crops.

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Jager bet on Dryel, a home dry-cleaning system, and Fit, an antibacterial fruit-and-vegetable cleanser.

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The non-profit trade association which has developed an efficient workable system by which families are able to harvest the fruit and earn an income that can pay for healthcare, education and everyday necessities.

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Oregon vintner Richard Ponzi uses a gravity system to process his pinot noir, because the finicky fruit would be too roughed-up by pumps.

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The protected section was mostly about how the McAfee relationship is bearing fruit, letting Intel address security at the lowest levels of the computing system.

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