Word: element
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invent a single element, but we did put together the whole package," Federman says...
...menace, a thug, a postcommunist villain who has cynically manipulated nationalism. He has blood on his hands. But his state does not have either the power or the ideological will to conquer Europe. While Germany under Hitler grew ever bigger, Yugoslavia under Milosevic has shrunk. The element of truth in this analogy is President Clinton's point about appeasement: the longer you put off standing up to aggressive dictators, the higher the price. If we had called Hitler's bluff when he remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936, 50 million lives might have been spared. If we had stood...
...gearing up for a long-term bombing campaign," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "But it's not prepared to put ground troops into a hostile environment -- it'll use them only to secure whatever cease-fire deal emerges." In other words, NATO appears unlikely to bring any new element into the battle...
Until this time, nearly all transistors had utilized germanium because it was easier to prepare in pure form. Silicon offered advantages, at least in theory, mainly because devices made from it could operate at higher temperatures. Also, silicon is a very common chemical element, whereas germanium is relatively rare. Silicon, however, melts at a much higher temperature, making its purification and processing more difficult...
...Marie Curie shares the Nobel Prize for Physics with Henri Becquerel and her husband Pierre for their discovery of radioactivity; she will win a second Nobel, for Chemistry, in 1911, for isolating the radioactive element radium...