Revenue and ticket sales set records right through this years' controversial home-run chase, in which so many frowned at steroid-suspect Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron's all-time record.

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Ionizing radiation can bring this about by breaking chemical bonds in atoms and molecules.

WSJ: Radiation's Effect Depends on Amount

The officials and their Afghan allies have had less success, however, breaking these bonds.

WSJ: In Afghanistan, Prosecution of 'Malign Actors' Stalls

Imaginative nonconformity was in the air: Picasso, Joyce, Freud, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and others were breaking conventional bonds.

NPR: Einstein: Relatively Speaking, a Complicated Life

Once viewed as having a good chance of breaking Barry Bonds' record of 762 home runs, Rodriguez remains stuck at 647.

NPR: Alex Rodriguez Calls Return 'A Great Challenge'

Bonds hit 73 home runs in 2001, breaking McGwire's record of 70.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Sales of corporate bonds and leveraged (high-risk) loans are breaking records.

ECONOMIST: Buy now, worry later

The act of giving thanks and breaking bread together renews, restores, and refreshes our precious bonds.

CNN: What are you thankful for?