He said few couples would choose to try IVF as a fast-track method of getting pregnant.

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MasterCard also provides customers its network and technical infrastructure to carry out transactions in a fast and easy method.

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Executives in the banking, retail, and technology industries acknowledge that mobile payments must tantalize consumers with targeted coupons and offers to demonstrate they are more valuable than an ordinary plastic card, which has been a fast and reliable payment method for about 50 years.

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Another method of creating a candidate virus also mixes wild virus with a second, fast-growing strain, but instead of growing them in eggs, lets the viruses mingle in a special solution while scientists manipulate them through a complex technique called reverse genetics.

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