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So when you read about scientific breakthroughs, how do you know what to believe?
So many Modernist breakthroughs involved the visual dismantling of a woman--Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) on the second floor of MoMA, de Kooning's Woman, I (1950-51) on the third--that it should come as no surprise that Léger began the same way, with his systematically fragmented Woman in Blue (1912), the first piece in the exhibition.
But where companies in other industries can resist commoditization through technological breakthroughs, better assembly lines, and--ironically--powerful branding, ad agencies seem at a bit of a loss.
At a Senate hearing, Republican senators worried that a ban on human-cloning research might prevent lifesaving medical breakthroughs, and researchers and ethicists said there is no need to legislate hastily, since it will take a while to refine the sheep-cloning technique to work in humans.
It doesn't create breakthroughs; it absorbs them.