Word: breakthroughs
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...DIED. DOLLY, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, of a lung infection; in Edinburgh. The birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996 was a scientific breakthrough, but it raised concerns about the ethics of cloning?and about the health of the clones. Australia's first cloned sheep, Matilda, has also died, though it seemed to be in good health...
...Chan, too, doesn't want to stop. He has been a Hong Kong icon for ages?his breakthrough film, Snake in Eagle's Shadow, opened 25 years ago next month?but he became a Hollywood star only in 1998. And dammit, he's determined to enjoy the ride, however many bumps he may take...
...come a long way from Freud's couch. The big breakthrough arrived in the late 1980s with the advent of safer and more widely effective drugs, like Prozac. According to Dr. Bruce Cohen of Harvard's McLean Hospital, we're on the cusp of a new era in treatment as the search for a single magic pill for depression gives way to a broad spectrum of therapies...
Prozac and the other so-called SSRIs have been a breakthrough on several levels. Compared with first-generation antidepressants, they are remarkably effective and relatively free of serious side effects. They work by slowing the brain's absorption of the mood-enhancing neurotransmitter serotonin (thus the term selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor...
...rhetoric coming out of North Korea, most Japanese remain relatively unconcerned about the possibility of a nuclear attack. They still believe that the U.S. will protect them from Pyongyang's threatened "sea of fire." But Japan's political leaders do worry about the peninsula: as they see it, a breakthrough in relations between North and South Korea that freezes out Japan and the U.S. would be a regional disaster. Indeed, many people believe that the Japanese government would rewrite the peace constitution if faced with a real prospect of Korean unification or of the U.S. withdrawing its troops from South...