Word: breakthroughs
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Americans have plenty of opinions about teenage sexuality. What they don't have are many hard facts. Alfred Kinsey's celebrated sex surveys in the 1940s and '50s were breakthrough studies, but they were methodologically flawed and didn't delve into the issue of teenage sex. And while a major sex study out of the University of Chicago in 1994 did include some teens in its sample, none were younger than...
...statement, signed in Beijing by diplomats from the U.S., North Korea, China Russia, Japan and South Korea, represented the first breakthrough since North Korea withdrew from international agreements in 2002 and announced its intention to build nuclear weapons. Since then, Pyongyang has declared itself a nuclear power and is believed to possess as many as seven atom bombs...
...Harvard team has begun to decipher Inca knotted strings, a breakthrough that would allow them to study the Inca Empire through its own records, rather than through artifacts or Spanish chronicles...
...summer that saw the rise of Ryan Fitzpatrick ’04 to the St. Louis Rams’ active roster and the U.S. Open breakthrough of James Blake ’01, two of Crimson baseball’s own became professionals...
...stunning breakthrough. In the world of cyberspying, locating the attackers' country of origin is rare. China, in particular, is known for having poorly defended servers that outsiders from around the world commandeer as their unwitting launchpads. Now Chinese computers appeared to be the aggressors...