To facilitate sharing of information, he believes companies should be encouraged to form "patent pools", allowing them to cross-license their technologies without losing out on royalties.

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But the visitors never looked like getting them once Schofield was run out by wicketkeeper Gareth Cross trying to run a bye off Smith's first ball.

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Maybe a reporter (EMPHATICALLY NOT ME) could take a bag of high-tech doodads on a cross-country flight to New Mexico or San Francisco and try them out.

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Some Christians, though, are striving to bridge that divide, attempting to reach out to the opposition and rebels, or at least cross the sectarian gulf that increasingly separates them.

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