Word: atomize
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That kind of optimism is endemic among the legions of medical researchers now engaged in the most momentous technological effort since the Manhattan atom-bomb project: decoding the messages contained in human DNA. Aided largely by grants from the federally funded Human Genome Project, they are striving toward the major goal of mapping the genome and identifying all its estimated 50,000 to 100,000 genes by the year...
...heard all this before. In every century, people have concluded that theirs was the most enlightened of all times and that any scientific questions not currently answered might never be. In this century, however, maybe it's finally true. Once you've unleashed the power of the atom in the sands of Alamogordo, the Einsteinian interchangeability of energy and matter becomes a settled question. Big ideas like quantum physics and the structure of DNA have been established just as conclusively...
...Space Modulator" because Earth obstructs his view of Venus. Earthkind's hero, Bugs Bunny, snuffs out Marvin the Martian's modulator fuse and saves the world, a feat that, theologians agree, must rank slightly ahead of Daffy Duck's space exploration in quest of "Aludium Phosdex, the shaving-cream atom...
DIED. KENNETH BAINBRIDGE, 91, noted Manhattan Project physicist who directed the first atom bomb test in 1945; in Lexington, Massachusetts...
...Tofflers didn't invent futurism, of course. H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and George Orwell were all practicing futurists working under a science-fiction guise. Fittingly, perhaps, modern futurism was born with the atom bomb, in that moment in history when it was suddenly possible to imagine a world without a future. It was Herman Kahn, a graduate of the Rand Institute, the Ur-think tank, who gave the nascent profession credibility with such groundbreaking books as Thinking About the Unthinkable (1962), which used sound scientific principles to predict with great specificity the likely effects of a thermonuclear...