Word: atomizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Laboratory, once the site of the Manhattan Project, the mother of all government secrets. Broadway Books is hoping it will have a best seller this summer with Los Alamos, a compelling and literate murder mystery from first-time novelist Joseph Kanon. Set amid the wartime development of the first atom bomb, the book has been compared to E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime for its intermingling of real and fictional characters. But a more apt comparison might be to the film Chinatown, with its small-scale moral muddles foregrounding grand-scale moral muddles...
Proteins are the basic machinery of cells--they are responsible for every process that occurs in the body. X-ray crystallography is a technique used for mapping a protein's structure atom-by-atom to create a three-dimensional model, much like a fingerprint...
Despite his sermon's title, the Archbishop also discussed some of Harvard's advantages, citing the University as a vital, if traditional, center for the worship of ideas. Discoveries at Harvard have led to the splitting of the atom, the development of new wonder drugs and the overturning of old ideas...
...citizens of the twentieth century, we have seen the mixed blessings of the relentless march of scientific "progress." Science conquered polio, but it also gave us the atom bomb. We live in a time when scientific ingenuity lights up our eyes with wonder even as it frightens us with the prospect of technological terror. The stinging criticism of Dolly is in part the sigh of a world community exhausted by the ethical dilemmas presented by science in the last sixty years...
Previous assumptions operated under the theory that the nitrogen atom forms a strong ionic bond with a counterion on the brain's target molecule...