Word: breakthroughs
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...decade study of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans led to the discovery of four proteins governing cell lineage, cell signaling and cell death—breakthrough findings that could have broad implications for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer?...
...painted surfaces - and beyond them into unreadable depths. The only features are the verticals that became his theme. In The Word I (1946), brown paint is scraped over pale blue, segmented by a vertical ray. Onement III (1949) is a version of the painting he saw as a personal breakthrough. About the height of a man, the canvas has one scarlet stripe on an opaque burgundy background. The surface is hardly modulated, so that details such as the rough canvas grain and the stripe's distressed paint become the story. The exhibition recreates Newman's first solo show...
This important breakthrough, though easy to mock, is actually a quite serious endeavor...
...implications of his breakthrough arealmost infinite. To have "one God that counts" instead of a constellation of gods who require occasional ritual appeasement, as Cahill notes in The Gifts of the Jews, means that Abraham's relationship to God "became the matrix of his life," as it would be for millions who followed. A universal God made it easier to imagine a universal code of ethics. Positing a deity intimately involved in the fate of one's children overturned the prevalent image of time as an ever cycling wheel, effectively inventing the idea of a future. Says Eugene Fisher, director...
...SERGEI BODROV JR., 30, actor and director seen by many as the most promising figure in Russia's struggling film industry; after an avalanche swept through the site in the Caucasus where he was filming; in North Ossetia, Russia. The son of a well-known director, Bodrov had his breakthrough in the 1996 Prisoner of the Caucasus. Officials say they have little hope of finding more survivors of the massive avalanche, which killed as many as 150 people, including 49 from Bodrov's cast and crew...