The practical application of these pleasant sentiments is the government's determination to send 50% of the population to university.

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Importantly, the application of Shariah law to modern finance is practical and pragmatic.

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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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Although carbon dioxide is the more important greenhouse gas, methane measurements will be a more practical early application to test the market for this sort of data.

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