For years I have written that the peak oil folks were missing something fundamental by performing an overly static analysis.

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But the decision to put government money into A123 was missing two fundamental pieces of research that any respectable venture capitalists would do.

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It aims to significantly reduce the number of children worldwide missing out on their fundamental right to education.

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All are clever, but something fundamental is missing.

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"The Higgs boson is the last missing piece of our current understanding of the most fundamental nature of the universe, " Martin Archer, a physicist at Imperial College in London, told CNN.

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