Dr Page thinks he has a method that could be ready before Dr Deutsch's omniscient machine.
It offered a £20,000 reward for a method that could find longitude to within half a degree after a voyage from Britain to the West Indies.
The Science study, "When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality," seemed to offer a method that could work.
This is not a method that could be used to create Jurassic Park, though, because there appears to be no dinosaur DNA.
What army wouldn't take advantage of a method that could make soldiers more alert, faster to react, faster to learn, less likely to binge-drink off duty, and more compliant with authority?
Researchers, for example, would give a new treatment to patients who they thought might benefit and compare the outcomes to those of previous patients who were not treated, a method that could introduce serious bias.
In La Géométrie Descartes had presented a method that could in principle be applied to any algebraic or "geometric" curve i.e., any curve whose equation was a polynomial of finite degree in two variables.
Through the late 1960s and early 1970s, an international team of health workers – under the guidance of the brilliant American physiologist and epidemiologist Donald Ainslie Henderson – adopted a method that could only be described as "good old-fashioned shoe leather detective work".
Other sources of delay, Mr. Parsons said, are tests on a sensor boom that a crew could use to inspect a shuttle in orbit, and deciding on a method that could be used for in-orbit repairs of the composite carbon heat-shield material along the leading edge of the wing.
Dr Doody has refined the way INVOcells are used, to create a method that could halve IVF's cost.In this section Waiting on hold A close encounter with Mars Great expectations Girls and boys come out to play The cruellest months ReprintsThe first part of Dr Doody's method streamlines the process of egg collection.
On Monday night, after five hours of talks, Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg, who leads the group of euro-zone finance ministers, gave the first details of a method that could be used to help the Greek government stave off bankruptcy, if needed.
