Clearly this would not be applicable in a crowd model.

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Dozens of skyscrapers crowd the model from end to end, plate glass is everywhere suggesting that city planners see the Khartoum of the future shimmering like a giant chandelier over the desert.

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Dr. Lin has created a crowd sourcing model where patients and their families can raise funds through social networking, use those funds to sequence a genome using services such as IGS, partner with geneticists willing to help interpret the results, and then make the case to pharmaceutical companies to pursue novel treatments based on solid biological data.

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This model of crowd-funded, developer-centric video game development will be able to continue with or without Kickstarter.

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Now, Swype Living Language allows people who opt-in to share and receive trending words and phrases in real-time, creating an up-to-date, crowd-sourced language model.

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Side-stepping the traditional publisher model is easier than ever given the twin advents of crowd-funding an digital distribution.

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These are major hurdles, preventing tens of millions from even considering vehicles like the Model S. Don't feel sorry for just the electric crowd, either.

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There were cheers galore from the crowd as Governor Rendell recounted this tale and highlighted Ms. Stiles as a role model of modern workplace.

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But by ignoring the crowd and focusing on these firms' strong financials and fundamentals, I think the Neff model will end up benefiting significantly from many of these picks.

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