Who in the world today has the moral standing and the practical ability to take meaningful action?

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On the other hand, said the IISL, it is not always necessary to actually own something in order to make money from it, as long as you have both the legal right and the practical ability to do so.

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Up until recently, and barring the use of Bluetooth headsets, the constraints defining the upper practical limit of a phone included the ability to fit into a pocket and be held against the side of an (adult) head to facilitate a voice call.

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The practical application here is that the ability to maintain entanglement for a long period of time is key to building real quantum information networks.

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Even if it turns out to not have too many practical applications, just the ability to see quantum mechanics work with the human eye is breathtaking enough.

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The first regards our collective ability to widely implement practical, cost-effective mechanisms for determining what solutions, approaches, and practices actually work best.

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