But XTO, with a smaller capital structure than the supermajors', is happy to invest in the neglected fields, using new techniques of 3-D imaging, horizontal drilling and so-called fracture stimulation--blowing open rock formations by injecting mudlike fluids down wells to get at big methane reservoirs.
This includes DNA on ligatures used to strangle the girls which was found using new forensic techniques.
But others are using fancy new techniques like cone-beam computerised tomography which actually expose people to much higher levels of radiation.
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In the U.K.'s North Sea fields, for example, Apache Energy is using new recovery techniques to revive production in a basin thought to be in terminal decline.
Using new genetic techniques such as molecular mapping, they have located a set of genes on one chromosome that appears to control the process in a grass species called Tripsacum.
In the U.K.'s North Sea fields, for example, Apache (nyse: APA - news - people ) Energy is using new recovery techniques to revive production in a basin thought to be in terminal decline.
It also recommended that follow-up research takes place on children born using the new techniques, and that the donor should be thought of in the same way as a tissue donor, meaning they would have no rights over the child.
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Using the new digital techniques, Spielberg made lifelike dinosaurs rampage through Jurassic Park.
Moffett believed that by using new seismic tools and drilling techniques the company might discover deeper and larger pools of gas under the now-exhausted shallow pools of oil and gas.
Significantly, the "Ankara School" of theologians working on the new Hadith have been using Western critical techniques and philosophy.
New techniques used in the study, such as using ultrasound to measure artery plaque, are generally difficult, and not as well understood as cholesterol lowering, they say.
Right now, the new techniques, which change skin cells into stem cells by using a virus to alter four genes, still need to be proven.
Too often, he complains, the court's judges, using techniques of a now antiquated common law tradition, have made new law, when their proper role is to interpret the constitution.
Cunningham: Using the same old, same old techniques and trying to apply them to a new medium.
Instead, pick ONE new way of working and focus on it for 30 days, using some of the techniques listed above.
The New York Times magazine had a piece this weekend on the increasingly sophisticated techniques that credit card companies are using to identify those who can pay their debts.
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