Without larger vocabularies they cannot do the synthesis of facts and ideas that is the way innovative problem solving happens.

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Traditional chemical synthesis cannot distinguish between left- and right-handed versions, so they have to be separated afterwards, which is tedious.

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The studies carried out under the Project have shown that identity, seen from a long-term perspective, cannot be viewed as a ghetto or an enclosure, but as the result of whole process of synthesis and encounter between peoples and cultures.

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