They hoped to design a new type of nontoxic therapy that could halt the growth of cancer, rendering it a chronic disease like diabetes.

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And for aviation engineer Oliver Caldara, it was the motion of birds in flight which inspired him to design a new, more efficient, type of paraglider.

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Philadelphia also has a strong contemporary-design community, with seven college-level design programs as well as a number of new design-company startups and stores, that has influenced the type of interiors people want.

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For the past eight years at Tohoku he has been working on a new type of silicon semiconductor that has a three-dimensional design (see diagram, below).

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This new type of sharing is most popular with the fashion, design and art worlds and will create a new intellectual property stir among an industry that is already loathe to user-shared content.

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