In just three weeks this fall, thousands of people playing the free downloadable game helped map the structure of an enzyme that could fight HIV and AIDS. Scientists at the University of Washington created Fold-it to turn research about protein folding into a game, dishing up puzzles made up of spirals and clumps that represent amino acids.
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This year the smorgasbord from Iowa to California groaned under all the offerings: flattening the tax structure, abolishing free-trade agreements, limiting the terms of lawmakers, reinventing welfare or health care or public housing or farm subsidies, spending more on defense, cutting this agency or that, restricting immigration.
Meanwhile Glasgow's tower, the tallest free-standing structure in Scotland, was closed for more than two years because of technical problems.
Liu was able to speak, but it was a dangerous and delicate task to free him from underneath the tottering structure, which could tumble at any moment.
The mechanics, art, flavor, free-to-play structure, and tactical structure of the title are all top notch.
But if we want to build on this structure and solve the free-rider problem, there are three fundamental flaws in the current system that need to be corrected.
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Wisconsin law prohibits more than 25% out-of-state undergrads (but add in the 10% Minnesota reciprocity students) but with a new financial structure, Chancellor Martin could have a free hand making the UW-Madison the semi-private school she envisions.
Described as a "mega-scale free form printer" by its makers, the massive aluminum structure uses sand, which it forms back into a material that's like marble.
Gloor says the rigid structure of many big corporations makes this free exchange of ideas difficult to achieve.
And what Ornette Coleman did for legions of musicians who came after him was free them up of the idea that they had to follow chord structure, and so you got a lot of guys who were just, you know, a lot of people thought were playing nonsense.
At 127m, the tower has been hailed as Scotland's tallest free-standing structure.
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However, in some cases, LLCs can choose a C corporation tax structure and save money by funneling profits back into the business tax-free.
It will also raise questions about the charging structure of online courses, which in this pioneering stage have mostly been free or low cost.
The debate today is not between big government and free market capitalism but rather about how we should structure our mixture of these two systems.
The disruptors, like Aereo, start from a much lower cost structure (beginning at free) but also at an infinitesimal installed base compared to their legacy competitors.
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It is hard to find a piece of free verse that outshines a well-executed traditional Shakespearian sonnet, despite the later conforming to a rigid structure of 14 iambic pentameter lines and a strict rhyme scheme.
This cost will be more than offset by the lasting benefits in terms of a genuine reduction in the Soviet threat a real "peace dividend" that will only be achieved when the communist totalitarian political structure and its economic handmaiden, the centralized command system, are supplanted by true democratic and free market arrangements.
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Moreover, these costs will be more than offset by the lasting benefits in terms of a genuine reduction in the Soviet threat a real "peace dividend" that will only be achieved when the Soviet totalitarian political structure and its economic handmaiden, the centralized command system, are supplanted by true democratic and free market arrangements.
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