In the first half of 1999 Lotus gained 7.4 million new users to Microsoft's 8.1 million, according to market researcher International Data Corp.

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Lead researcher Professor Polly Bingley said the rate of childhood Type 1 diabetes was increasing all over Europe, particularly in the very young.

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About 264, 000 midsize pickups were sold in the U.S. in 2012, compared with 1.6 million large trucks, according to researcher AutoData Corp.

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In the late 1970s Harvard Medical School researcher Joel Habener serendipitously discovered a hormone in monkfish called GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide).

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Rockefeller University researcher Jeffrey Friedman has calculated that an imbalance of as few as 1, 700 calories a year would lead to weight gain or loss over time.

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Market researcher IDC says that last year, worldwide page volume from digital printers fell just 1% to 3.09 trillion pages from 3.12 trillion.

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