Sentences with phrase «of millennium»

Cloud Gate, aka The Bean, is located in the heart of Millennium Park which sits between The Loop and the lake.

The best example of this is the dramatic life cycle of cerulean blue, which Pantone forecasted as the color of the millennium in 1999.

Great to hear — Prof. Benson's findings are just one part of great the neuroscientific findings of the past years that proof the benefit of these millennium old practices, that is incorporated in the very rewarding professional training at the Minded Institut by Heather Mason: Yoga Therapy for mental health.

Velcade is the leading product of Millennium Pharmaceuticals.

Lander is a cofounder of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Verastem, and the cancer vaccine startup Neon Therapeutics.

What follows is a framework I developed with a colleague in my earlier work on payments for watershed services, which can also be found buried in a chapter of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment for which I was a lead author.

When New Horizons roared into a blue Florida sky on 18 January 2006, it was met with excitement and frustration in equal measure: excitement because, after so many fruitless attempts to send a spacecraft to Pluto — ranging from the ill - fated Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) to the Pluto Kuiper Express (PKE), which breathed their last in ferocious NASA budget cuts in the 1990s and at the turn of the millennium — a mission to explore the last of the nine «traditional» planets in the Solar System was underway, tempered with frustration that it would require such a long period of time in order to reach its quarry.

International partnerships are quickly becoming the norm of the millennium, enabling organizations and nations to combine funds to achieve greater scientific capability.

With encouraging survey results, the project was started a few years after the turn of the millennium.

Since the turn of the millennium, research has been placed centre - stage in the development of a knowledge - based economy.

«They claim that by producing more phytoplankton, they could help the recovery of the fisheries,» says Osvaldo Ulloa, director of the Millennium Institute of Oceanography in Concepción, Chile.

HIV researcher Glenda Gray saw this first hand at the turn of the millennium, when South African president Thabo Mbeki refused to accept the link between HIV and AIDS.

These numbers fall short of the Millennium Development Goals for reducing maternal and child mortality by 2015 that world leaders committed to back in September of 2000.

When you're done constructing hovercraft and fending off dehydration, kick back in a replica cockpit of the Millennium Falcon for a spectacular view of some of the best images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

But by the turn of the millennium, more powerful machines existed, and the accelerator was essentially obsolete.

«And if all the engines quit, it won't come down like an aluminum tube,» said Gil Costin, chief executive officer of Millennium Airship in Bremerton, Wash., which hopes to have a fleet of airships in service by 2020.

Oxford researchers have constructed a «hit list» of the plant species most needed to boost the overall diversity of the Millennium Seed Bank, which is storing seeds in its vaults for future generations.

The researchers assessed the existing collection of the Millennium Seed Bank by focusing on the legume family.

At the turn of the millennium, the 860 megahertz of radio spectrum carried by a coaxial cable was mostly taken up by cable companies sending standard analogue video in 6 - MHz bands.

Later, between 1620 and 1640, Earth's temperature fell to its lowest point since the beginning of the millennium.

All contributed to the global communications infrastructure that we take for granted now in the waning days of the millennium.

U.N. member states pledged in 2000 to reduce maternal mortality, defined as a woman's death during pregnancy, childbirth or within 6 weeks after birth, by three quarters by 2015 as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS).

New results from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Residential Energy Consumption Survey finds that homes built after the turn of the millennium use roughly the same amount of energy as those built before the year 2000 - despite being 30 percent larger, on average (link).

«This is the very pinnacle of the science I've been doing since the turn of the millennium,» he says.

Back around the turn of the millennium, Susan Anderson was puzzling over a problem in ethics.

And Life magazine recently cited the filtration of drinking water and use of chlorine as «probably the most significant public health advance of the millennium.»

By the turn of the millennium, my argument was beginning to gain ground.

Around the turn of the millennium, Takaaki Kajita presented the discovery that neutrinos from the atmosphere switch between two identities on their way to the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan.

The United Nations has attempted to fill this gap by securing a pledge from developed countries to halve the number of people without any form of sanitation — whether basic outdoor latrines or indoor toilets — by 2015 as part of its Millennium Development Goals (a series of goals for world development, ranging from alleviating poverty to fighting diseases like AIDS).

So confident were we in the seas» seemingly limitless capacity to absorb our gaseous waste that, by the turn of the millennium, the United States, Germany, and Japan were actually proposing to compress CO2 from power plants into a gooey liquid and pipe it directly into the abyss.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

This population was probably initiated by individuals who migrated from the Baltic region at the beginning of the millennium and settled between southern Brandenburg and northern Saxony.

The problem is considered so pressing that the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named it as one of its Millennium Prize Problems.

More than 160 papers were published on rodent enrichment in 2016 versus a handful at the turn of the millennium; at the 2016 meeting of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 83 out of 171 rodent presentations focused on enrichment — more than twice the number at the 2009 meeting.

The origin of the Milky Way's antimatter fountain is one of the millennium's juicier enigmas.

No model, however, has predicted the global warming hiatus which climate researchers have observed since the turn of the millennium.

Looking back on the failed radio observations at the turn of the millennium, Disney is eager to make up for lost time and continue the search for the phantom universe's elusive galaxies.

They are President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, Trade Minister, Alan Kyeremateng, Carlos Ahenkorah, Deputy Trade Minister, Mr Ashim Morton, President of Millennium Excellence Foundation, Mr. Amarh Hari, Chief Executive of IPMC and Mr. Ashok Mohinani, Chairman of Mohinani Group.

But even the claims by Mr. Morton, somehow contradicts the accounts of the Chairman of the Millennium Excellence Foundation, Victor Gbeho, who said monies were given willingly as sponsorship for the event, and that can not constitute extortion.

The alliance of WASH Advocacy, a coalition of non-governmental organisations and network focused on improved water delivery and sanitation, has petitioned the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to address open defecation and review its approach towards the attainment of the millennium development goals.

Ghana's efforts to reach the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on maternal and child health may not have run very smoothly, but hope turned into joy for stakeholders when the Community Benefits Health (CBH) project was launched in the Upper West Region last Thursday.

When Stoke experimented with a directly elected mayor at the turn of the millennium, it elected the progressive independent, Mike Wolfe, whose campaign was heavily critical of «Labour dinosaurs».

There was a «rapid increase» at the start of the 1990s because of the recession, and another sharp rise at the turn of the millennium when Labour's flagship tax credit scheme was introduced to help low - income families.

Thirty - five percent of Millennium's ninth grade this year comes from Brooklyn, and the need for selective schools is much greater there, Speiller said.

Volume Three includes Peter Mandelson's second resignation, the agonies of the Millennium Dome, and the most unexpected slow - handclapping in memory, when the Women's Institute turned against Tony Blair.

The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Mr. Jonathan Nash, has expressed his and the MCC's appreciation to the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, for his efforts to try and find a lasting solution to the political impasse in Togo.

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has embarked on what he termed the «final push» towards accelerating the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals in the...

Technical comments submitted by Protect Orange County on the impacts of the Millennium Lateral Pipeline on Farmland and impacts of the CPV Power Plant on Environmental Justice Communities.

Ministers all but admitted that Labour had abandoned the 2010 goal of halving child deprivation from the 3.4 m total at the turn of the millennium but insisted that the party was committed to abolishing it entirely by 2020.

The ex-Whitehall chiefs cite examples of bad laws that have resulted from the way government now operates, including the poll tax of 1990, the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991, the failure of the Child Support Agency, the Hunting Act 2004 and the story of the Millennium Dome.