From tech gadgets to inventively designed products, it is a place hungry for cutting-edge.

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SpaceShipTwo, its inventively named commercial vehicle designed to take (well-moneyed) civilians into outerspace, has just completed its first rocket-powered test flight.

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Mateschitz, 60, typifies a new class of billionaires who got rich not by inventing a new product but by selling an ordinary one inventively.

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Bill Clinton, by contrast, was so inventively solicitous of the rich that he was accused falsely, he insisted of auctioning off sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom.

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Jazz, though not played quite as inventively as it was when Louis Armstrong was making the South Side swing in the 1920s, is still alive and well.

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The inventively named Hamburger U has maintained a steady course of training since its formation, and Crotonville, launched in 1956, is the oldest corporate university in the nation.

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One debate concerns the future governance of the internet: should it be directed by governments, or should it be left to the private sector to develop inventively (and somewhat anarchically)?

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Back then, the inventively trashy filmmaker John Waters was having campy fun with early-'60s hair and fashion, and with his cross-dressing hausfrau, but he was also dressing down a certain set of early-'60s attitudes about conformity and racial segregation.

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