According to a Scottish government official talking to property specialists this week, these large-scale investment packages could be backed with government support to reduce risk.

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To give you a sense of the scale of this problem alone, consider that according to the Recording Industry Association of America, approximately 2.6 billion files each month are copied on peer-to-peer sites such as KaZaa and LimeWire , which are increasingly being used to share movies in addition to music.

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Women feel more comfortable than men taking social risks, such as moving to a new city or wearing unconventional clothes, according to studies using this new, domain-specific risk-taking scale.

WSJ: What Makes a Risk-Taker

According to the authors of the paper, the success of this setup means that the fundamental building blocks of large-scale quantum teleportation are now in place.

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