The MIT Laboratory of Computer Science take the latter approach to an extreme with its Handy 21 project.

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On Sunday, the Mars Science Laboratory executed a series of maneuvers designed to slow its approach to the Mars surface.

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Back in his Stanford laboratory, Khosla admits that he has a way to go before his approach can be as proficient at churning out druglike compounds as automated chemistry robots.

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At the same meeting, related findings emphasizing the same principles but coming from a slightly different approach were reported by Edward Fenimore, an astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and fellow researcher Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz.

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Michael Studdert-Kennedy, a psychologist at the Haskins Laboratory, in New Haven, Connecticut, and one of the most vigorous critics of the approach, argues that other studies have shown that the brain processes speech sounds completely differently from non-speech sounds, and that the hearing problem identified by Dr Merzenich's group thus has nothing to do with dyslexia.

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