Supposedly resulting from abnormal antenatal exposure to hormones, this cluster includes maleness, homosexuality, left-handedness, poor visual-spatial skills, immune disorders, and perhaps also language-learning talent.

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Despite their obvious talent with the language (Brin and Bear have both won Nebula and Hugo awards, the science fiction equivalent of the Emmys and the Oscars), the writers had a hard time conveying anything practical to the CEOs in the audience, who were looking for new technology to exploit.

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Sun Microsystems invented the Java language and started a mass exodus of computer programming talent away from Microsoft toward Sun.

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It also said the range and volume of English language production in Wales had been dropping, with the result that audiences were declining and much theatre talent was forced to work outside Wales.

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