Word: breakthroughs
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...more than a mere scientific breakthrough. The news, which broke first in the Wall Street Journal, caught the eye of entrepreneurs. Each year millions of pets die in the U.S., leaving behind plenty of well-heeled owners who would be willing to pay top dollar to replace their beloved companion. Genetic Savings & Clone already offers to freeze pet DNA for future cloning, charging a one-time fee of $895 plus $100 a year for storage...
...platform leather boots, pancake makeup and pyrotechnic stage shows, Oyamada would go on to vent his wild side through his uninhibited, almost childlike sonic stylings. This obsessive fascination with music as an aural portal to his (and our) more Dionysian alter egos made his 1998 album Fantasma an international breakthrough. The charged orgy of crunchy metal riffs, mutated Disney-like anthems and psychedelic vocals propelled the album to the top of America's college charts and prompted an 80-city tour of the U.S. and Europe as well as appearances at England's Reading and Glastonbury festivals. Now, with...
...LANKA Real Deal Norwegian mediators scored a major breakthrough when the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels agreed to a permanent cease-fire after two decades of civil war. The memorandum of understanding not only halts offensive action but also includes detailed provisions for the treatment of civilians. News of the agreement came only hours after a major sea battle off the northeast coast in which a naval officer was killed and several injured...
...world that is in an absolutely desperate condition where people are literally dying every day,” Sachs said. “The fact that the rich have gotten so rich makes it possible to actually help [poor countries] solve their problems and make a real historic breakthrough...
...with even the Israeli military acknowledging that a period of relative calm had followed. That, of course, was because the militants of Arafat's own Fatah organization and also radical Islamist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, had signed on. But in the absence of any paradigm-shifting breakthrough, the respite was always going to be temporary. A week into January, Hamas broke its silence with an attack on a military outpost on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza. Then came the Karine A weapons shipment, which Israel claims proved Arafat malafides as a peace partner...