Although most such organisms multiply at healthy rates, the newly discovered microbes divide just once each year, on average--a startling case of "life on the edge," says team leader John Priscu, a microbial ecologist at Montana State University in Bozeman.
In 1995 Donald Foster, a professor of English at Vassar College, made a startling case for Shakespeare's being the author of an obscure 578-line poem called "A Funeral Elegy".
The damage to the lives of thousands of children in Cambodia is a startling case study for Myanmar.
A startling case in Japan has confirmed that pregnant women with cancer can pass the disease to their fetuses.
The case of anti-vaccination is a startling example of a case where it's not corruption that is doing the harm but a perception of corruption.
This startling case of "chemistry at a distance," as one scientist calls it, suggests that long-range DNA repair of some kind might play a role in normal cells.
A new book, "Stalin's Secret Pogrom," provides the full and startling case of the Jewish Anti-Fascist createdee, created with Stalin's approval during World War II for the purpose of winning support in the West for the Soviet war effort.
The findings, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, included the startling case of one severely ill patient who, after undergoing the treatment, saw all traces of leukemia vanish in eight days.
And as for single startling cases of self-evident cause and effect: often their moral is simply how deceptive single startling cases of anything can be.
I think one of the most startling cases of supercapitalism is the example of Yahoo!, Cisco Systems and Google enabling the repression of Chinese citizens by cooperating with government censors.
