Word: breakthroughs
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Kirichok’s breakthrough came when he noticed a tiny bubble on the sperm’s tail, near the head, which allowed him to patch-clamp the sperm at that bubble...
...brilliance of Brin and Page, but also to a series of fortunate events. It was Page who, at Stanford in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventually became Google's search engine. Brin, who had met Page at student orientation a year earlier, joined the project early on. Their breakthrough, simply put, was that when their search engine crawled the Web, it did more than just look for word matches; it also tallied and ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link to one another. That delivered far better results than anything else. Brin and Page meant...
...next breakthrough came in 2000, when Google figured out how to make money with its invention. It had lots of users, but almost no one was paying. The holy grail turned out to be advertising, and it's not an exaggeration to say that Google is now essentially an advertising company, given that that's the source of nearly all its revenue. What Google did was master the automation of online advertising, perfecting a model developed by GoTo.com (later renamed Overture and eventually sold to Yahoo!). Here's how the system works. If you're a company selling sneakers...
...spent her childhood in the Bronx, learning tap and jazz by going to the cinema and imitating Fred Astaire and his ilk. Her first dance class was part of an after-school physical education program, and it was in this unlikely setting that she had her first creative breakthrough. When given an assignment to “do something” with a nursery rhyme, Mallardi says, “Somehow I instantly understood what [the teacher] meant, that I shouldn’t mimic it. We created something. And I went, ‘What is this thing called...
...into what it calls "operational details." The President tried to argue the facts a bit today, suggesting almost obliquely that his administration's no-quarter prosecution of the war on terror helped foil a plot on a Los Angeles skyscraper. But he stopped short of saying the breakthrough was based on the NSA snooping. The facts of the case, so far at least, remain unargued in public...