But as new sequencing and information technologies develop, and the cost and speedof large-scale projects fall, more such international plant initiatives may well find their way on to the menu.
He added that reducing the number of cameras might also lead to a fall in the numbers of motorists taking speed awareness courses "that help them to avoid speeding in the future".
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It is as if the speed and magnitude of the changes to East Germans' lives after the fallof the Berlin Wall left some East Berliners longing for the certainties of the old days.
That is a truly sensational speed that I could never expect out of my own stupid car unless it somehow managed to free-fall from the International Space Station.
Too big to rely on air bags to cushion its fall as with previous Mars landers, Curiosity landed through an automated system of high-speed maneuvers, a supersonic parachute, eight retro-rockets and a set of "sky-crane" tethers that lowered the vehicle gently the last few feet to the ground.