Word: atomize
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...very foundation of how we make use of old knowledge to understand new things," says Lohman. "It may take a long time to understand how our solar system is set up, but if someone could use that information to help you understand the structure of an atom, it speeds the process up...When we learn, we have to do this again and again. Students listen to a lecture and say, 'How did that relate to what I know?'" O.K., but isn't Atkinson right that students should spend more time reading than studying word lists? Probably, though it depends...
Meanwhile a trio sang an opera about a scientist’s love affair with an oxygen atom...
...show genre; in Manhasset, N.Y. The hazel-eyed, brunet beauty had appeared in several movies before finding her calling in broadcasting. The Hi Jinx radio show, with hosts Falkenburg and McCrary, first aired in 1946 and featured guest interviews as well as reports on such weighty topics as the atom bomb and venereal disease. Its success spawned a television offshoot called At Home that also starred the two. By the 1950s, the couple's franchise included two radio shows, a TV show and a column for the New York Herald Tribune. Tex and Jinx, as they were popularly known, separated...
...that allow North Korea to source much of the high-tech machinery and parts it needs to build conventional arms?as well as weapons of mass destruction. Following revelations this year that some Japanese-based companies had exported items to the North that could have been used to build atom bombs, Japan has attempted to curtail some of its trade with the regime. On May 8, for example, Tokyo police raided a trading company called Meishin, which is run by members of Japan's North Korean community. Police accused Meishin of exporting transformers whose workaday function of regulating electrical current...
...When Atom Egoyan's son, Arshile, was six or seven, the Canadian director decided it was time to share with him some painful family history: the deaths of more than 1 million Armenians, including some of Egoyan's paternal relatives, at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I. In response, the little boy had one inevitable question...