1.   Around the country, homeowners and communities fed up with overdevelopment, contaminated ground water and overflowing septic tanks are turning to novel solutions to dispose of waste.

2.   A novel solution for the lack of a proper keyboard on cell phones comes from Blink.com, a bookmark-organizer Web site.

3.   Davis envisions one day people around the world will use eVote to come up with novel solutions to environmental, social or political problems.

4.   His novel solution lands him a place at MIT as an assistant to an arrogant former young genius who is confronting the diminution of his mathematical prowess.

5.   It even offers a novel solution to the problem.

6.   Then he met a New York lawyer who came up with a novel solution.

7.   When it came to replacing chlorofluorocarbons, for example, creativity was our greatest natural resource, shaping novel solutions where they had not formerly existed.

8.   White came up a novel solution, but got a D.

9.   Mockus has attacked problems with novel solutions, from enlisting teen-age mimes to ridicule jaywalkers to distributing plastic thumbs-down cards that can be flashed at offensive drivers.