"We'll try to get some more researchers to work on specific elements of it now we understand what the different things are - say for people who are particularly interested in scorpion flies from that age, or insects from that age, we'll do something on that, " Mr Williams said.

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Again, we understand that people will come to the table with different views.

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In response, Professor Richard Dawkins, a high profile atheist, was asked to broadcast an alternative Thought for the Day , but his thought - that "we have been born and we are going to die, but before we die we have time to understand why we were born" - was broadcast in a different slot on the programme.

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Our broad posture here is that we understand the frustrations that have been expressed by many Americans in different cities across the country about, broadly speaking, the economy and also about the need for Wall Street to work by the same rules that Main Street works by.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

"The United Kingdom as we currently understand it would become a very different thing indeed, and Wales' constitutional relationships within it would require a much more radical reconsideration, " he said.

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We understand the proprietary nature of the financial services industry, so we are going to collaborate in a different, more restricted way than is typical for an open source company.

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Once we get a lot of data onto maps, we can really begin to understand reality in much different ways, like where to build a house to increase the happiness of the people inside it, how to make routes that avoid accidents, and how to design better urban systems.

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