Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Responding to America's fear of communism inthe late '40s and the emerging threat of nuclearwar with the Soviet Union, the University equippedits nuclear laboratory with a new cyclotron and"atom smasher...
...crystallography allows us to map out the atom-by-atom three-dimensional structure of a drug target, [especially] the active site," says Brum. "The more precise information we can have about the active site helps us to develop a safer, more potent drug...
...take stock for a moment. To name just a few random things we did in a hundred years: we split the atom, invented jazz and rock, launched airplanes and landed on the moon, concocted a general theory of relativity, devised the transistor and figured out how to etch millions of them on tiny microchips, discovered penicillin and the structure of DNA, fought down fascism and communism, bombed Guernica and painted the bombing of Guernica, developed cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers...
...drops atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Thank you for all those great old articles on Coke and communism, Cadillac fins and atom bombs, on cocaine, the Kennedys and prefab homes. Thank you for not forcing your writers to aim for a third-grade-level audience. Keep your standards wonderfully high. GRANT RAMPY Chicago...