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...hoping to finally have that breakthrough performance at the national championship regatta. We think we can come away with a top-five finish if things go right for us,” Palmer said...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Sailing Struggles with Consistency | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Though Penn had finished fifth at Ivies for three-straight seasons, the squad’s breakthrough came as no real surprise, as the Quakers placed second to Harvard at the Roar-EE Invitational last weekend...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Three-Peat Not in The Cards for Golf | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

Lamott has written so much about Sam in her nonfiction--her breakthrough book was 1993's Operating Instructions, a memoir about her first chaotic year of single motherhood--that fans pepper her with questions about him at readings "until I'm like, 'Enough about Sam,'" she jokes. As insatiable as the interest is, she is protective of his life. "People feel like they know me and Sam," she says, but "they know what I have chosen to share with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Sakti3 is another company trying to create a breakthrough. The company was launched a few years ago at the University of Michigan by an ambitious young engineering professor, Ann Marie Sastry. Sakti3 is developing solid-state (as opposed to liquid) lithium-ion batteries that Sastry believes will enable cars to travel twice as far as batteries do now, allowing the cars to be used the way internal-combustion-engine-driven vehicles are. Her firm is developing prototypes to deliver to automakers later this year. Sastry's 20-employee firm, based in Ann Arbor, has generated millions of dollars in government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Start-Ups Are Charging Into Lithium | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...goal of modern theoretical physics is to reveal the universe's lost elegance. A major breakthrough in that effort came in 1964, when Peter Higgs, a shy British scientist in Edinburgh, introduced a theory that could explain how particles that carry two of the four forces - those that carry the electromagnetic force, and those that carry the weak force - came to have different masses as the universe cooled (in the moment after the Big Bang, of course, nothing had mass, existing instead in a sort of naked, ethereal beauty). Extrapolating from Higgs' theory, scientists were able to explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Collider Matters: In Search of the 'God Particle' | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

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