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...case became a landmark in the annals of sex research, living proof of the prevailing theory of the 1960s and early 1970s that sexual identity exists in a kind of continuum and that nurture is more important than nature in determining gender roles. Babies are born gender neutral, the experts said. Catch them early enough, and you can make them anything you want. Widely cited in medical and social-science textbooks, the baby's transformation helped pediatricians confidently advise other parents facing similar circumstances to rear their wounded boys as girls...
...That really was a landmark for getting American astronomers into radioastronomy," Pound said, adding that British and Australian scientists had traditionally dominated the field...
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...