• Their work there was aimed at separating the light, fissile isotope of uranium (useful for making bombs and reactors), from its more abundant, but less useful, heavy cousin.

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  • The offering is proof that while hard partying 20-somethings at start-ups such as Yelp may grab headlines, the new tech boom is creating real money for companies that may be less sexy but more useful.

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  • But he says they are less useful for vegetables, which often carry less harmful bacteria.

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  • Eventually you can get it all to work much like TiVo, storing and retrieving shows on the hard drive, but in more awkward and less useful ways.

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  • Extremely useful still for freight but less so for the movement of people over long distances.

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  • Which would be the same data as the second but in a form, paradoxically, less useful to anyone.

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  • Of course, these questions could have been resolved on Google in less than a minute, but they were useful questions (according to Coz), and, so far, Sasha had resisted.

    NEWYORKER: Found Objects

  • Which is less catchy as a phrase, but has a longer useful life.

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  • This rendered the websites less useful than their potential for communicating logistics, but still provided some centralization of information.

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  • Moving toward a relative ratings system is not a silver bullet, but it may be a useful incremental step toward smaller, less damaging credit cycles in the future.

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  • PRTs have been a useful improvisation in difficult circumstances, fairly effective in improving security but less so at development work.

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  • Sure, digital tuning and presets make this less useful than it might have been a few years ago, but we like the idea of being able to scroll and randomly find a station we might like, without having to wait for a station break to find out where we are.

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  • Safety campaigners have suggested lower speed limits make crashes less likely and less severe when they do happen but the figures have triggered a debate on how useful the restrictions are.

    BBC: Car and van crash

  • Current accounting rules allow retailers that sign certain long-term leases to omit the leased property from their balance sheets. (The basic rule is that omission is acceptable if the lease term is less than 75% of the useful life of the building.) But the Financial Accounting Standards Board may change that next year.

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  • As markets tumble and commentators tear their hair, it is difficult to accept that Japan's recession may have useful side-effects of this kind but that makes it no less true.

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  • This list is certainly less intrusive than the questionnaire my friend had me fill out, but it may be just as useful.

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  • Another strategy involves using less energy (100 kV instead of the standard 120 kV), which is effective but useful only for patients who are not obese.

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