Word: breakthrough
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...science journalists. Or cold fusion, or any other unproven notion. "We pride ourselves on being sticklers for science, rooted firmly in the mainstream," says assistant managing editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, whose hard-nosed science team produced this week's installment of Innovators, our monthly series on 100 people with breakthrough ideas. It was quite a departure for Phil's reporters and writers to venture into the realm of alternative medicine, where hopes proliferate and proof is often sketchy. Yet the field is booming because millions of Americans swear these therapies have given them relief where conventional medicine has failed them...
...might expect a mother's memoir about a handicapped daughter to be a tale of tragedy or an account of a miraculous breakthrough. Exiting Nirvana (Little, Brown; 225 pages; $23.95), Clara Claiborne Park's new book about her autistic daughter Jessy, is neither--or perhaps it is both. Jessy's autism is incurable, but her story is nonetheless one of triumph, of a thousand small skills arduously acquired and a thousand more yet to be mastered...
...breakthrough came from an unlikely source--G.O.P. Senator Don Nickles, who had long been among the bill's enemies but who wants to become the next majority leader. He showed leadership Wednesday on the issue of how much, in total, an individual could give candidates and parties in a year. The Republicans were holding tough at $50,000, the Democrats at $30,000. "Let's just split the difference," Nickles finally said--not quantum physics but enough to get them talking. Eventually they agreed...
...Even the staunchest opponents seemed to have softened their opposition to the bill's central provision, a ban on the unregulated "soft money" that has flooded the political system over the past decade, nearly half a billion dollars in the 2000 election cycle alone. What may have been a breakthrough came after McCain arranged a meeting with one of his foes--Nickles, the Senate's No. 2 Republican. "Tell the Senator his friends are here," McCain told Nickles' secretary when he arrived. Their discussion moved through some disagreements but found common ground. Nickles surprised McCain by bringing up soft money...
Facemail could get hot fast. Then again it could end up as yet another technological breakthrough in search of a problem. (Remember all that talk just a few years back about how videoconferencing was going to sweep the business world?) Personally, I'm a fan. But Facemail should be used with a certain amount of caution. The clown looks awfully cute at first. But if you select the clown, put a few snippy words in an e-mail and add some angry emoticons, you've got Psycho-mail...