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...Vaillancourt’s vision made the breakthrough in the closely-fought second period of Saturday’s game. Shrugging off two Cornell defensemen on the left wing, Vaillancourt threaded a pass for unmarked junior Anna McDonald to finish, giving the Crimson a vital advantage...
There is also the issue of drug resistance, which makes finding the next new breakthrough antimalarial all the more vital. Until that happens, Novartis hopes its new pediatric dose - which the company spent the past four years developing - is the next step toward the eventual eradication of a childhood killer...
When Asobi Seksu’s breakthrough album, “Citrus,” came out in 2006, it filled a gap in underground music. Loud enough to satisfy My Bloody Valentine fanatics but pretty enough to entice indie pop listeners, the album acquired a large and diverse audience. The band soon developed a reputation for intense live performances fueled by pounding drums and passionate vocals, but listening to their new release, “Hush,” one would find this hard to believe. Leaving rock sensibilities behind in favor of meandering pop musings, Asobi Seksu...
Winslet's pre-Titanic breakthrough came when she was still in her teens, in 1995's charming Sense and Sensibility. But beginning with her portrayal of Clementine, the psychedelic-haired femme semi-fatale who radiates crazy in 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a darker, richer phase of her career began to bloom. With the 2006 drama Little Children, in which she plays a suburban mom whose fear that she is becoming a cliché propels her into an affair, and her two latest movies, her appetite for a certain kind of role - "angst-ridden women," she says...
...Despite the breakthrough, the Mumbai issue could still reignite tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Cyril Almeida, an editor at Dawn newspaper, warned that tensions could arise over the arrested suspects. "Are they the same people India believes are responsible for the attacks?" Almeida asked...