But advocates of NuTech retort that this is all the more reason to legalise assisted suicide and bring it into the limelight.
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Compaq's new machine will far outstrip the largest commercial supercomputer ever built, a 7.5 teraflop machine IBM announced it was building for privately-held NuTech Sciences almost exactly a month ago.
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In Australia, meanwhile, Philip Nitschke (a doctor who helped four terminally ill people to die under the protection of a now-repealed law in that country's Northern Territory) is pushing NuTech in new directions.