Such an update will have to correct some serious design flaws, however, to move this audio experiment from intriguing form to attractive function.

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And, thirdly, it ought to be a system that can be treated by the royal commission as a working experiment in one form of permanent solution.

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"Any firm that wants to expand at low cost will have to experiment with some form of e-commerce, " says Liu Yuhong, vice director for the computer center in Beijing's Xidan department store.

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For the Majorana experiment, physicists have made their own purified form of copper underground some of the purest on the planet and built an underground machine shop to make parts with the copper.

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Though Dr Russell's experiment had been designed mainly to look at how clouds form naturally, it paves the way for future work on geoengineering.

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Such cases would often start with officers going to gyms, starting to experiment with steroids - "then the relationships they form when they're using steroids become corrupt and corrosive", he added.

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If hepatocytes and their genomes become disarrayed by disease, Willenbring says, it may activate oncogenes in the same way their experiment did, causing the cells to change identity and form cancers.

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Ultimately, fashion is a form of self-expression, and students should be allowed to experiment with their personal style, especially during the formative years of middle and high school.

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At the end of the experiment, each flu dollar was converted into a real one and given to the participants in the form of an educational grant.

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