This is crystallized DNA.

Before the war, there were over 600 ionizing fire detectors that contained the crystallized europium (Eu).

The Polish born Pope John Paul II crystallized the anti communist threat that Poland now posed to the Soviet Union.

Out of that broader study has emerged a concern and an ambition, crystallized in the wish that I'm about to make to you.

So, I share it with all of you here today, though the idea itself is getting crystallized and I'm still writing up the business plan.

Large quantities of crystallized methamphetamine have been seized in several countries and there has also been a significant increase in seizures of Ecstasy in the region.

The perceived lack of leadership from the Commission at this time of deepening economic gloom is just the tip of the iceberg. The events of recent months have crystallized more deep seated concerns.

At the time I was photographing in these different places, I thought I was covering separate stories, but on 9 11 history crystallized, and I understood I'd actually been covering a single story for more than 20 years, and the attack on New York was its latest manifestation.

These laid the groundwork for the Millennium Summit to set out a series of time bound targets across all these areas ranging from halving extreme poverty to putting all children into primary school, all with a deadline of 2015 that were later crystallized into the Millennium Development Goals (see box 1).

The fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were Saudis crystallized a long held view of the kingdom as a bastion of authoritarianism and intolerance. In some respects, this perception is accurate, but it cannot be applied to the broad Saudi public.

The issue of relations with China crystallized in September, when the Japanese Coast Guard arrested the captain of a Chinese trawler after his ship hit two Japanese patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, which are part of Japan and within its territorial waters. Tension between Japan and China which claims the islands immediately soared.

LONDON When former Czech President Václav Havel knocked on the door of the Chinese embassy in Prague to demand the release of the writer Liu Xiaobo, I had an eerie sense of déjà vu. Thirty three years ago, Havel helped initiate Charter 77, the landmark document that crystallized the ideals of all the dissidents and many others trapped behind the Iron Curtain.

While not all our expectations or ambitions were realized in that document and considerable gaps cry out to be filled I am thinking particularly of the crucial areas of disarmament and non proliferation we must, nevertheless, welcome the fact that around the central pillars of the United Nations, namely, development, peace and human rights, broad agreement has crystallized and a new international agenda has in fact emerged.