And then she applied what she had learned and discovered a breakthrough process that uses light to kill cancer cells.

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The massive earthquake that killed more than 70, 000 people in and around Kashmir raised hopes of a breakthrough in the peace process there.

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White House officials tried to lower expectations of a breakthrough on the peace process during this trip, stressing that peace issues were likely to take a back seat to discussion of Iran and Syria.

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Author Cathy Davidson, defines learning as being a constant disruption of an old pattern, a breakthrough that substitutes something new for something old in a cyclical process.

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Mr Vlahos's breakthrough was to create a complicated laboratory process which involved separating the blue, green and red parts of each frame before combining them back together in a certain order.

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There was no breakthrough, but both sides spoke positively of a peace process that had appeared in jeopardy after last July's bombings in Mumbai.

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That was until I became a therapist and a coach, and began the process of writing my book Breakdown Breakthrough.

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