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But for millions of Africans, life without these inventions and the innovations based on them is still their daily reality.
Fearful of change, Mike Brearley and his English side not only baulked at innovations such as the new limited overs fielding restrictions, but refused to don the new "pyjamas".
We see him as the only high profile UK politician outside of Green party who has actually delivered real improvements to our environment and who has taken risks to promote green innovations.
Disruptive healthcare innovations can turbo-boost the quality, safety and efficiency of care.
Musical continuity – akin to cinematic editing – and its impact on large-scale form have also been fundamentally affected by Stravinsky's innovations.
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Together with partners and grantees, The Rockefeller Foundation strives to catalyze and scale transformative innovations, create unlikely partnerships that span sectors, and take risks others cannot – or will not.
(Those bastards at Cadbury have been torturing me lately with their ceaseless innovations, perhaps most deviously by inserting cheese biscuits – cheese biscuits – into their chocolate, with predictably sexual results).
Are there people thinking about scaling [up] those innovations?" Interviewed ahead of next week's biannual World Bank meeting, Kim added: "They [the climate change community] kept saying, 'What do you mean a plan?' I said a plan that's equal to the challenge.
From Porto Alegre's participatory budgeting and the literally destratifying cable cars of Caracas, to Nairobi's "digital matatus" and the repurposed bus-ferries of Manila, the communities of the south are responsible for an ever-lengthening parade of social and technical innovations that rival anything the developed world has to offer for ingenuity and practical utility.
