Word: onto
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...dealing here with entirely sensible people. The whiff of superpower attention went to the head of Kosovo's Albanians as they savored their first steps onto the world stage, prolonging the negotiations and frittering away pressure that was supposed to be reserved for the Serbs. Milosevic bathed in ego gratification as the world's diplomats trooped to his door. Both sides seemed to think, Why not keep this game going...
...birthplace). The Sargents were not rich, but they moved from one roost to another--Rome, Paris, Nice, Munich, Venice, the Austrian Tyrol--for the first 18 years of their son's life. All he retained of America was his passport and some traces of accent; yet he held onto both until his death. Sargent's relation to America was neither resentful nor yearning, as it is with so many expatriates. He was a cosmopolitan, with the perfect adaptability of that type. His homeland was his talent...
...story of science and invention through people has always been part of TIME's mandate. In 1923, our first year, we did a cover on Frederick Banting, who helped isolate insulin, and the following year we did covers on Sigmund Freud and Leo Baekeland, who both made it onto our list this week. Science and technology have been particular interests of mine: this is the 40th cover related to these fields that we've done since I became managing editor 40 months...
Watson's famous "Aha!" was but the last in a long chain. It was Crick who had fastened onto a chemist friend's theoretical hunch of a natural attraction between A and T, C and G. He had then championed the complementarity scenario--sometimes against Watson's resistance--as a possible explanation of "Chargaff's rules," the fact that DNA contains like amounts of adenine and thymine and of guanine and cytosine. But it was Watson who had first learned of these rules...
...very real, pragmatic issue is that if we allow this group onto campus then there's a real problem that we'll have other groups who feel they can discriminate," said Sachs, who is also a Crimson editor...