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We may also know something about how history was rewritten wholesale in the Soviet Union during those years--how the facts concerning the October Revolution were successively recast as key figures fell from favor, how the existence of Leon Trotsky was first reviled and then denied after he was forced into exile in 1927, how even such things as the invention of electric light were reattributed to Russians in the textbooks (an astonishing number of scientific breakthroughs were allegedly the work of one Popov).
The marginal cost of carbon reductions range from $46 to $138/metric ton through 2015 with each scenario showing successively smaller costs as technology characteristics improve and more energy-efficient and/or low carbon technologies penetrate the market.
The samples were rinsed successively in PBS and deionized water and then were mounted on glass slides in Aqua Polymount from Polysciences, Inc. (Warrington, PA).
Cross-contamination between successively spotted samples is a potentially severe problem and was found to be minimized by increasing the stringency of pin washing procedures beyond the manufacturer's recommendations by increasing sonication in the washing solution for 5 seconds at the highest power setting.
As for challenges, I am currently looking for a word that can be cut into two successively smaller forms.