We have to make concerted efforts to interact with the unknown, to follow connections and to explicitly indulge our curiosity.

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As a segue from there, Eun noted that Samsung is making concerted efforts to make its products work together with devices and services outside of Samsung -- in other words, it's unrealistic to assume that each consumer owns a Galaxy Note 10.1, a Galaxy S III and a Samsung HDTV.

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Elias Zerhouni, the head of research and development at Sanofi and the former director of the National Institutes of Health, says a concerted effort was needed to make sure that existing efforts at cutting clinical trial costs do not fail.

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