Word: shatteringly
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...groups rarely meet--Cantabrigians say they rarely encounter Harvard students in their daily lives. As a result, the stereotype of smart rich kids is hard to shatter...
Interviewing the notoriously terse Spike Lee is a daunting task in itself. Interviewing Spike Lee about a new film that threatens to shatter our perceptions of race relations and expose all our recent "progress" as phony is almost too much to handle. After all, Bamboozled, his new film, is causing a ruckus all over the country as it slowly rolls out into theaters and there's no question that it will continue to spark debate long after its run is over...
Unfortunately, that scene will never play itself out because the Cardinals will win in six. I know. I give the Mets too much credit. I don't want to shatter Mr. Volonnino's world too much. He's a nice guy, just seriously misguided...
Until then, Venter had been randomly sampling and sequencing small bits of cDNA. But one of his new recruits, Hamilton Smith, a Nobelist from Johns Hopkins', proposed a bolder approach: "shotgunning" the entire genome of an organism. The idea was dramatically simple. Using an ordinary kitchen blender, they would shatter the organism's DNA into millions of small fragments, run them through the sequencers (which can read 500 letters at a time), then reassemble them into the full genome using a high-speed computer and novel software written by in-house computer whiz Granger Sutton. By contrast, the HGP divided...
...ceremony at one of Elektrim's power plants where, according to Polish tradition, she smashed a bottle of champagne on a new boiler and became its official guardian. "I am the first godmother of a boiler in Poland!" she says with a grin. For most Poles, Lundberg continues to shatter all molds...