Word: breakthroughs
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...sequences encoded by mRNA.“I saw the possibilities of working in science research,” says Leder, who abandoned initial plans to practice clinical medicine to work in the laboratory.Since the landmark experiment that deciphered codons of the standard genetic code, Leder has also made breakthrough contributions to oncology, including the creation and patenting of OncoMouse, a genetically modified mouse designed for cancer research. “His early work helped him establish himself,” said Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Philip A. Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...breakthrough came in 2004 with Paranoia, set in a high-powered telecom firm in a fictional Silicon Valley locale. He followed Paranoia, his first New York Times best seller, with another, Company Man, about the old-line office-furniture industry. Finder had found his niche: John Grisham--like thrillers starring business people instead of lawyers. Finder is careful to explain, though, that his books rely on human emotion, not corporate scheming, for their drama. "They're not about high finance," he says. "They're a portrait of life in the corporate world, with regular people...
...that Almodovar has made with Maura, the earthy muse of his early years. From his first feature through five more films, culminating with his international hit Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Maura always grounded the director's flights of cinematic and sexual fantasy. But after the breakthrough with Breakdown came a public breakup. After two films with Victoria Abril, Almodovar made five features (all terrific) with five different actresses in the lead roles. Bad Education had no significant female roles at all, as this one has no dominant males...
...equally important breakthrough came the next day when he flew to his father, who was on a state visit to Burkina Faso, and received his blessing for the initiative. "I will see if we can be friends," he quotes his father saying over a lamb and rice lunch. Gaddafi dispatched foreign intelligence chief Musa Kusa to Geneva in mid-April for a meeting with top MI6 and CIA officials, who traveled secretly to Tripoli in September for a face-to-face with Gaddafi himself. The Libyans agreed in principle to throw its WMD projects wide open...
...Seif al Islam says that Gaddafi?s confidence grew as the number of messages from the British and U.S. governments came in via MI6 and the CIA. The key breakthrough occurred on Sept. 6, 2003, when a British air marshal flew in to Tripoli on a Royal Air Force plane and handed Gaddafi a personal letter from the British Prime Minister formally agreeing to Gaddafi's conditions for proceeding. That paved the way for the visit of the MI6-CIA technical team to inspect all of Libya's top-secret WMD sites and report back to their governments...