"I like it when it's not too busy, when it's quite linear, " he says.

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It's too busy shipping its best entrepreneurs to Britain, Canada and the U.S. This is why London, Toronto and New York have become the cuisine capitals of the world.

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"It's too busy here to ask those kinds of questions, " she says, and then guesses that the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, where she works, would probably own the intellectual property.

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"We're trying not to pull the trigger too quickly, because it's a busy travel time, " said American spokesman Tim Smith.

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We're hoping that Sowah is just too busy working on the NXT launch (it's not supposed to be out until April, so they've still got time to roll it out on schedule) to get back to Darren, and that the NXT will be out on time.

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