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By applying market-research techniques to a new field, he came up with a colorful, gamelike medical questionnaire that became the basis for the new company he heads, Tonic Health of Palo Alto, Calif.
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In a bid to placate Airbus, the British government this week announced it would finance research into new computer-modelling techniques at several British universities, to help Airbus speed up product development by as much as 90%.
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It also recommended that follow-up research takes place on children born using the new techniques, and that the donor should be thought of in the same way as a tissue donor, meaning they would have no rights over the child.
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"There will be full transparency" regarding "any new techniques that might be allowed" as a result of such research, one of the officials promised.
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Still, the basic ingredients of Brazil's success agricultural research, capital-intensive large farms, openness to trade and to new farming techniques should work elsewhere.
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