This was a superb display of Ms. Blige as a singer: she sang hard and in tune, from the polished up-tempo tracks of her recent Geffen record, "The Breakthrough" (all of its songs but one), to the loud, torn, lower-range gospel phrases she has produced in other incarnations.
One of the great breakthroughs in all of human history has been free trade.
Frustration over my productivity provoked me to take a wider look at breakthroughs in all of the life sciences in recent years.
A breakthrough Olympics for the British has perhaps its greatest breakthrough of all.
"Before we have been making progress in smaller museums," he said, referring to exhibitions at the Bank of Austria's Kunstforum in Vienna and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, France, "but this is really a big breakthrough for all of the disciplines that awakened during Hungarian modernism".
In my opinion, the Nolan Chart is one of the most important political breakthroughs of all time.
Government-funded R&D, as well as the buying patterns of government agencies -- (alas!) both often connected to war and war-making plans -- have driven innovation in everything from textiles and shipbuilding to telecoms, medicine, and high-tech breakthroughs of all sorts.
In a single, mind-blowing session, I listen to Craig Venter, the genome man, explain how he's on track to create an entirely new species out of synthetic DNA within two years, arguably one of the, if not the, greatest biological breakthrough of all time.
Like all breakthroughs of its kind, this one relied on decades of incremental progress in parallel fields.
But even if Hack Manhattan's Brain Pong was not the first of its kind, or the most cutting-edge of technological breakthroughs, Figment visitors of all ages found the game to be a fun, futuristic twist on an arcade classic.
