Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said last-minute finishing touches are all part of opening a business...
...claim that the Enlightenment was the work of writers. Writers might have advertised and propagated it, but the Enlightenment, like every single major transformation in history, was the work of scientists. It was the work of Descartes and Galileo and Newton and Leibniz and various French mathematicians whose last names begin with "L" (Laplace and Lagrange come to mind). It was they who showed that the "cold reason" of a science anchored in mathematics was capable of describing and predicting the workings of the universe with a precision previously undreamed-of. It was their success that made the wooly scholarship...
...interview last week, Lieber compared nanotweezers to human-sized pliers...
Lieber and Philip Kim, who was a doctoral student in chemistry last year, published the results last week in Science...
...said the project was inspired by a conference three years ago, but he and Leiber did not begin to work together until last year...