What artists do, and what each of us have to do more of, is to develop a practice, a method of working, that encapsulates who they are and what they know.

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Obviously this clumsy manual method would not often be used in practice, and the services of a computer programmer would generally be required to automate it.

ECONOMIST: Cryptography

They have been able to import the individual vaccines from abroad and one practice in Edinburgh has inoculated 400 children using the method.

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Contained in the proposals are powers for either a council or a Minister to issue statutory guidance to a school where they feel that their method of teaching - say, reading - is not consistent with best practice and cannot be shown to be delivering appreciable results.

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This method long the practice at Israel's Mossad is more complicated (and can be more risky), but is said to produce more high-grade informants and information.

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