You come up with a great idea, but moving that new discovery from theory to practice or from the lab to the marketplace, that's a challenge.

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Medical malpractice lawyers spare no effort trying to get the details of physician reviews, which in many states are protected from legal discovery under the theory that such discussions must be frank in order to improve medical care.

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This theory is used to support the discovery of three marks on the ground in the forest which some claim tally with the tripod feet on the capsule.

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The reason they won acceptance for their theory was because they began to frame the discovery in terms that were acceptable to the community of gastroenterologists whose work was undermined by their discovery.

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The discovery of quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity, vital to much of modern technology and economic activity, including the transistor, the laser and the atomic bomb.

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It may, as John Learned of the University of Hawaii (another of the team's leaders) suspects, merely show how to extend the current theory in the same way that Einstein's discovery of relativity improved upon, but did not invalidate, Isaac Newton's mechanics.

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