This week saw some exciting new developments in the realm of renewable energy.

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"We've seen and continue to see exciting new developments in the online video space where genres are being created, " added Mr Byrne.

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"It is a tour de force and offers a new and potentially exciting opening for developments of new anti-obesity drugs -- something which is badly needed, " says Dr. George Bray, chief of the Division of Clinical Obesity and Metabolism at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University.

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However, we now live in a new type of economy and one of its most exciting developments is paired-matching.

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