Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson's number four Lucy Miller squeaked by Yale's Liz Solovay, in an upset. "They were tight games, and the victory was a great breakthrough for Lucy," Harvard Coach Priscilla Choate said...
This semester, for the first time, students can get credit for doing PLAP work if they are enrolled in a new seminar in prison law being taught by Jay Pottenger, a visiting professor from Yale. "That's a real breakthrough for us," says third-year law student Tracy Thorleifson. "We've been working on getting a prison law course here since before my 1L year...
...news prompted tabloid headlines proclaiming CANCER BREAKTHROUGH and led desperate patients around the country to deluge the NCI with requests for the new "cure." Such a reaction is clearly premature, warned Rosenberg (who was a spokesman for the team that treated President Reagan's colon cancer). "I am really anxious that this be kept in perspective," he said. "This is a promising first step in a new approach to use the body's own immune system against cancer. It is certainly not a cancer cure...
While the big companies are busy scrapping over conventional toys, this year's biggest breakthrough, the talking bear, has come from small entrepreneurial firms. Filled with stuffing and wiring, these toys can speak, after a fashion, with their owners. The most popular is Teddy Ruxpin ($60 to $80), a 20-in. bear whose eyes and mouth move when it speaks from a recorded cassette. Ruxpin's voice comes from a tape player in its back. The manufacturer, Silicon Valley's Worlds of Wonder, will ship as many as 750,000 by Christmas but still cannot meet demand. Says Stewart Brown...
...next big breakthrough came in 1950, when Fred Whipple, a Harvard astronomer, proffered a detailed model for the anatomy of a comet. In a delightfully evocative phrase, Whipple declared that comets are "dirty snowballs," dark conglomerates of mostly frozen water stippled with rocky fragments, dust particles and trace elements. As one of these snowballs swoops toward the sun, said Whipple, solar radiation begins to vaporize ice and frozen gases on the comet's sunward surface by a process called sublimation. The gases, carrying dust with them, form a light-reflecting coma that makes the comet visible from earth...