Word: landmarking
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Even now, a week after news of the achievement first flew around the globe, traces of astonishment linger in the air like a contrail. The landmark paper published late last week in the journal Nature confirmed what the headlines had been screaming for days: researchers at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, had indeed pulled off what many experts thought might be a scientific impossibility. From a cell in an adult ewe's mammary gland, embryologist Ian Wilmut and his colleagues managed to create a frisky lamb named Dolly (with apologies to Ms. Parton), scoring an advance in reproductive technology...
Panelists said education has made little real progress since the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, which desegregated U.S. schools...
Burns' own father was responsible for the erection of the Hawthorne Hotel, a Salem landmark named after the town's most renowned literary genius...
...released Star Wars movies on the big screen are not the changes that the filmmakers have made but the quality that the size and sound of the film take on in a large theatre. There's also the simple feeling of being there, of commemorating a landmark event in the change (for better or worse) of the motion picture industry from the director-driven, art-oriented days of the early seventies to the big-budget, star-vehicle, action-adventure, special-effects nineties. A country of 260 million people has few pieces of shared experience, and it is somehow comforting...
...often that a historical landmark literally vibrates with youthful energy. The Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, built in 1903, functions today as a bustling social service agency meeting the community's needs via a food pantry, childcare center and afterschool program...