(Country is as self-referential as hip-hop, and name-checking musical influences is a durable career-boosting trope).
It's part of a sketchbook series documenting Steinberg's influences, "a durable circle of comrades," Smith notes, that included Turgenev, Chekhov and van Gogh.
For the authors, epigenetics offers "an important set of mechanisms by which social influences can become embodied, having durable and even transgenerational influences on the most pressing US health disparities"(ibid).
Despite internal divisions over dealing with Mr. Arafat, the Bush administration continues to regard him as the only Palestinian with enough influence to strike a durable deal with Israel.
There are warning signs for Democrats, too: Mr. Trump's party remains ascendant in rural America, giving Republicans a durable advantage in the Senate, where less-populous states have influence greatly disproportionate to their voting numbers.
As part of the Obama administration's campaign to subdue a sprawling insurgency and create a durable Afghan government, the military sent thousands of soldiers last year into rural areas under the influence, if not outright control, of the Taliban.
Achieving a durable cease-fire proved elusive.
But they did create a durable template.
