Yes, the mother of Ab Fab-ness is playing Sister Ruth, who dishes out spiritual guidance to one of Walford's most wayward.
The village of Ab Barik was buried beneath metres of solid rock and mud, along with an untold number of its citizens.
Germany's bestselling book is "Deutschland schafft sich ab" ("Germany does away with itself"), a warning by a director of the Bundesbank, since forced out of his job, that too much child-bearing by the poor and by immigrants (especially Muslims), and too little by the educated classes, dooms the country to decline.
On August 8th, Gwilym ab Ioan, a member of Plaid Cymru's national executive, resigned after saying that Wales was becoming a "dumping-ground for England's oddballs and misfits".
Earlier this month, Dr Wolynes learned unofficially that his team's program performed "quite well" in the ab initio category (the official results will be announced next month).
Prizes, Nobel or otherwise, will therefore go to those who can find a way of predicting a protein's shape reliably.One method, known as an ab initio solution, is to try to calculate the shape from first principles.
Now they are increasingly sceptical about the "Ab Fab" values of the 1960s generation particularly in regard to casual sex and abortion and increasingly enthusiastic about America's use of military might.
One of the two CDA negotiators, Ab Klink, the outgoing health minister, stepped down earlier this month, registering his unease about relying on a party that "plays up divisions within society".
And no wonder, when recent demonstrations against Israeli military action in Gaza have chanted: "Hamas, Hamas, Juden ab ins Gas" (Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas).
And no doubt the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meant well when it decided to allow non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and academics to comment on a dispute between France and Canada over a particular brand of asbestos.
Later he shifted to a more " Augustinian" stance, rejecting the hypothesis of a creation "ab aeterno" and admitting that it is possible to prove the temporality of creation, although he finds that no conclusive argument has been advanced so far.
