Symyx has developed a machine as big as a walk-in closet that can mix thimble-size quantities of chemicals and metals in parallel, in up to 1, 000 combinations per day, to test and create new materials.

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Delaney, who admits that he "still has to concentrate" when parallel parking uses the method below and credits it with getting his daughter through her driving test when she was 18.

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