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Dream Come True: How Two Australian Dentists 3D Printed A Fix For Apnea

Dorothy Pomerantz
Natalie Filatoff
August 08, 2017
Some 34 men out of 100 suffer from sleep apnea, and Dr. Christopher Hart was one of them. The condition, which is much less frequently diagnosed in women, blocks the airways and causes people to temporarily stop breathing. It also can jolt them awake several times during the night. The most common treatment involves a method called Continuous Positive Airways Pressure or CPAP, which requires sleeping with a bedside pump that forces air through a mask worn over the mouth and nose.
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From Preemie to Preschool: The Miracle Twins Strike Back

Jane Nicholls
December 08, 2016
Twin brothers Ethan and Noah Caisley are typical mischievous 4-year-olds. Just the other day, they came up with a plan for one of them to bust out of their preschool while the other created a distraction. The teachers foiled their plot.
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Inside the mind of a top CIO

Achin Kumar
December 07, 2016
This story originally appeared on GE Reports, Australia, New Zealand & PNG
 

Mark Sheppard formed his first software company with a mate back in the ’80s. The two 14-year-olds growing up outside the city of Oxford in England, had programmed an adventure game and sold 15 copies—they were pretty happy!
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This Is What We Call A Sea Change! Shell's Floating Giant Will Revolutionize The Natural Gas Industry

November 30, 2016
It’s not unusual to see giant cruise or cargo ships out at sea today. But even by those standards, Shell’s new floating liquefied natural gas facility is huge.
Dubbed Prelude after the gas field where it will operate off the coast of northwestern Australia, the massive facility is 488 meters long and 74 meters wide. Its footprint is larger than an average New York City block, or, if you prefer sports, large enough for four soccer fields. .
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Huge GE Gas Turbine Generator Starts Up at One of the World’s Largest Gas Projects Operated by Chevron

April 22, 2015
Five hundred years ago, Michelangelo fashioned David from marble cut out of the mountains towering over the Tuscan town of Carrara. Today, however, the area’s craftsmen are in the business of making Goliaths.
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A Glass Half Full: These Water Treatment Technologies Are So Powerful They Can Fight Drought in the Desert

April 07, 2015
Water scarcity has again become a hot topic as California and Texas lurch into their fourth year of drought and Brazil’s Sao Paulo may start rationing water in 2015. But in some parts of the world the lack of water has been a problem for as long as anyone can remember.
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Francisco J. Sánchez: The US and EU — Promoting Growth Through Trade

Francisco J Sanchez Cns Global Advisors
November 03, 2014
In 1986, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world. The aftermath of the decades-long Vietnam War and the mismanagement of the economy left the majority of the country in abject poverty, with per capita income below $100. Through drastic economic reforms, Vietnam’s government gradually decentralized the economy and opened it up to international business.
 
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New Dementia Research Reveals Overwhelming Demand for "The Value of Knowing"

September 20, 2014

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Global connectivity and collaboration key to successful innovation; according to GE Innovation Barometer

August 21, 2014

Australian executives agree successful innovation comes from global collaboration, according to the GE Innovation Barometer results released today.

Out of the 26 countries surveyed, the report revealed 82% of executives in Australia agree that innovation is increasingly becoming a global game. The results outlined that merging and combining talents, ideas, insights, and resources across the world is the only way to be successfully innovative -- a view which is in line with executives' globally.

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Koala Bears Suffer From Chlamydia Epidemic But Docs Fight Back with Ultrasound

August 07, 2014

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