And the cold war produced a host of incredible breakthroughs in other areas of science and technology.
The company itself and its predecessors helped develop the first commercial system for adding sound to motion pictures and a host of other breakthroughs that include innovations in lasers, satellites, electronic switching and the UNIX operating system.
Stephen Bridge, chief executive of Papworth – scene of the UK's first heart transplant and a host of other medical breakthroughs – told the Guardian that his hospital may become a casualty of "NHS politics" and is "exasperated" at the Treasury's eleventh-hour intervention.
Still, no one is missing the genre's lack of diversity, certainly not Mr. Lopez, 48, who hopes to be the first breakthrough host of color since Arsenio Hall.
Instead of Middle Eastern oil, America will import Chinese turbines, German solar cells and a host of other foreign-made breakthrough products.
MapReduce represented a couple of breakthroughs.
"More important than empires and wars and other breakthroughs," he continues, "technology is now an environment, the host of human habitation.
There are a host of other RLV designs in development around the world, and a breakthrough is anticipated.
The breakthrough comes as Greece prepares to be the host of the 2004 Summer Olympics, an honor it nearly lost because November 17 members remained at large.
These approaches in combination with more detailed assessment of antibody function, host genetics, breakthrough viral sequences, and a systems biology approach to analyze the transcriptional and proteomic profile associated with HIV immunity should be applied to future efficacy evaluations in humans to advance the goal of vaccine development.
