While the companies make up a varied landscape of technological know-how, financial wherewithal and enterprising ideas, they all share one common goal: The desire to conquer what is widely considered to be the final frontier of mankind -- the universe.

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Without knowing the history of the Cenotes in Mexico, I was determined to dive in a cave and conquer my fear of what I could not see.

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What is industrialisation, if not man trying to conquer nature?

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What she wasn't counting on was that love did not conquer all obstacles, so there's quite a bit of tension between the two of us.

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In an instant, with no more levels to conquer, I had a void on my hands and no real plans or ideas with what to do about it.

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But even as Amgen defends its anemia franchise against threats on all sides--including cuts in what insurers and the government will pay for--investors will ask whether it can conquer a new disease: osteoporosis, the chronic bone weakening that afflicts 10 million Americans, most of them women.

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But even as Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) defends its anemia franchise against threats on all sides--including cuts in what insurers and the government will pay for--investors will ask whether it can conquer a new disease: osteoporosis, the chronic bone weakening that afflicts 10 million Americans, most of them women.

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