Vertex, instead, takes a machine-gun approach, designing thousands of compounds to test them against hundreds of potentially disease-causing proteins--all at once, and before scientists even know which protein might be a good target or which compound might actually work.

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According to him, Dr Afridi did get suspicious by late April 2011 that there might be a high-value target in the Abbottabad compound, but he still didn't know who it was.

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And their target is an insurgent compound.

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The shell fell short of its target and hit an army compound, killing Sapper Mark Antony Smith, 26, from Swanley.

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One shell fired in the morning had landed more than 1, 500ft (450m) from its target in the morning, hitting compound eight, but no-one was injured.

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And the machines can only test for one event at a time--say, monitoring one enzyme's activity or seeing if a compound binds to a target on a cell.

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The inquest at the Old Town Hall, Gravesend heard that 136 rounds had been fired over the compound that day with two falling short of their target.

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If we assume 15 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) as an average growth target, in 10 years our small IT room would need to support at least 160 racks with over 2, 000 physical servers, and would require almost 5, 000 square feet of floor space.

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The Turkish round of the tournament will act as a trial for the compound discipline of the sport - featuring a 50m distance and a smaller target - in anticipation of a bid to be included in the 2016 Olympics.

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