Word: breakthroughs
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...chance to produce Willis’ album was a real breakthrough for Kraft’s career...
...table, though in reality they might be a continent or two away. "You can be immersed anywhere in the world and feel like a participant," says Max Nikias, the center's director. Within a decade or so, he predicts, 3-D "immersive" environments will be as big a breakthrough as the microprocessor, PC or Web browser once were...
Nicolelis is confident that a technological breakthrough will come, perhaps in the form of some kind of permanent intracranial implants, and that the ethical issues surrounding the technology will be resolved. It will probably be a long time before our brains will merge with our computers. When that day does come, however, our bodies will still be ourselves - but they could well have more than just two arms and two legs...
...Indeed, South Africans credit Nkosi with forcing them to deal with AIDS sufferers as part of their community, rather than shunning them or denying their existence. And in a country where one in nine people is infected with HIV, that was a profoundly important breakthrough. But it couldn't end with simply acknowledging the problem. When he was invited to address last year's international conference on AIDS in Durban, Nkosi not only appealed for AIDS sufferers to be treated with love, warmth and respect, he scolded South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki - who remains skeptical about the accepted wisdom...
...breakthrough - slowing light to a stop, storing it and then releasing it at will as if it were an ordinary particle - has apparently been pulled off by two independent teams of physicists, one led by Dr. Ronald L. Walsworth and Dr. Mikhail D. Lukin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the other by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard, who made similar headlines two years ago when she slowed a beam of light down to a nearly pedestrian 38 miles an hour. Walsworth's work will be published in the Jan. 29 Physical Review Letters...