But children were nobody else's business for those willing to adopt, or procreate with the methods available to anyone able to pay for donated eggs, sperm or a surrogate mother.

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This universal international treaty stipulates that governments should adopt measures to restrict the availability of prohibited substances and methods in order to reduce illegal use by athletes (Article 8).

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For example, learning about health and the environment motivated people to clean roads and to adopt improved farming methods.

UNESCO: Literacy and Community Development Programme (LCDP)

The researchers believe that early assessment - which they say can be done reliably from the age of four - would enable schools to adopt new teaching methods.

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New methods must be easy to adopt or they won't overcome the inertia of old habits.

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The factory offers a walk through car-manufacturing history, much of which Toyota has written, and whose successful methods the world's automakers--and other manufacturers--have rushed to adopt.

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