ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 16 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * US-Japanese partnership approaches an atomic clock breakthrough * * * All clocks are ticking down to an argument about the time. Imperceptibly, they gain or lose fractions of a second. Gradually, they drift apart until someone reads the time aloud, and somebody with a different clock begs to differ. Unless clocks are periodically synchronized, dr  more