But if we let our excitement about molecular advances obscure the pressing medical need to improve our understanding of behavior, we may be surprised by how difficult it is to translate biological progress into something the really matters improved health outcomes for patients.
In fact, they represented the fruits of hyperactive gambling in the Fed's monetary casino — a place where the inside players obtain their chips at no cost from the Fed-controlled money markets, and are warned well in advance, by obscure wording changes in the Fed's policy statements, about any pending shift in the gambling odds.
Closer support would be offered by several flotillas of motor launches, small torpedo boats and Coastal Motor Boats which would lay smoke screens to obscure the advancing blockships as well as evacuate the crews of the cruisers after they had blocked the channel.
For decades, high poverty rates among new immigrants have weighed down statistics on Hispanics and obscured advances of latter-generation Latino Americans.
This would be enabled by advances in cryptographic software that could utterly obscure users' identities, creating a state that Tim May, one of the founding Cypherpunks, called "crypto-anarchy".
Civil rights was the era's defining issue, she demonstrated, not merely a product of Republican vindictiveness toward the South or a smoke screen to obscure the party's efforts to advance the interests of big business.
This adaptive technique should generalize to any recording situation where a stereotyped, triggered transient might obscure a neural event and will significantly advance our knowledge in areas of electrophysiology where the experimental design requires prolonged microstimulation.
This may have been lost in translation, but more likely it was the enthusiasm of Quiggle (whom Sanford blamed) or the blunder of his own advance messenger (which he obscured).
But the genuinely challenging politics of advancing big-ticket items like immigration in the face of unprecedented partisan polarization should not obscure more troubling and personal, rather than institutional facts.
He wasn't always obscure.
