Brian France, Nascar's chairman and chief executive, said at Daytona that breakthroughs by the upstarts would be very encouraging.
US officials are hopeful that breakthroughs with India and China could still provide the underpinnings for at least a limited deal at Copenhagen.
In addition, despite hopes within the drug industry that breakthroughs in gene research would result in an explosion of new therapies, few new drugs are in the pipeline.
Priya Abraham, 16, argues that breakthroughs in nanotechnology will mean earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment, freeing up hospital bed space.
I made it clear that participants should not assume that science will come up with dramatic new anti-aging technologies, though people were free to imagine that breakthroughs might occur — or not.
That almost guarantees that breakthroughs in a controversial and competitive field of research like stem cells will land in the public's lap as scientific faits accomplis, just as Dolly did.
