Research on coaching has grown tremendously in the last decade but theory itself is mostly adapted from other closely allied disciplines.

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For its part, Google's kicking in not just the operating system, but also an Internet browser designed for mobility (adapted from Apple's Webkit), a calendar, an address book, maps, e-mail and access to Google's online payments system, which can be used to buy things via phones.

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The comedy has previously been adapted for Broadway and the West End, but that production transported the action from Sheffield to Buffalo, New York.

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The locale of "Rigoletto" changed even before its first performance in 1851 Francesco Maria Piave adapted the libretto from an 1832 Victor Hugo play set in France, but objections by censors led to the shift to Italy.

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And there is a small but growing number of people travelling to the outdoor locations where the series - which is adapted from the books of American author George RR Martin - is filmed.

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However, Sir Fred and Dr Wickramasinghe took it to ridiculous lengths, proposing not only the arrival of organisms from outer space, but that those organisms (such as influenza viruses) are somehow already adapted for life in the hurly-burly of the terrestrial ecosystem.

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The film, adapted by David Lindsay-Abaire from his own play, could have been merely gruelling, but Mitchell keeps nudging scenes away from the obvious, toward the risky brink of comedy look at Howie and another grieving parent (Sandra Oh) getting stoned and giggling their way through group therapy.

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