The message that there has to be bold, dramatic action will be delivered in person by none other than US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

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While not as overtly exciting or dramatic as the teleportation of an actual person, such quantum teleportation nonetheless has enormous implications for the world of computing both in terms of the amount of information that can be stored and the speed with which it can be moved around.

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"It is difficult to feed one person here in Chad, so to feed 100, 000 more without having planned for them is dramatic, " he adds.

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