The drug's inventor, Randall Lauffer, quit a job as a chemist at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital to develop his idea for the drug.

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Mr D'Aloisio took time off school to develop his idea for a smartphone application that offers summaries of existing news stories published on the net.

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By January 2009, he was fleshing out the rest of his story idea to fully develop his vision with help from Sony, the console-gaming giant.

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Brown had asked for a release from his employment agreement to develop the idea.

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In subsequent films, Rouch pushed the idea of self-dramatization to more radical ends by working onscreen with his subjects to develop their personae, but here he embeds his illuminating psychosocial speculations in a straightforward documentary essay.

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The 29-year-old Australian, who moved to England from Melbourne Storm in 2007, says it was the experience of playing cricket with his five brothers and his sister as a child in Casino, New South Wales, which helped him develop such a simple idea.

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