The lead author, Brian Wirth, who is affiliated with Oak Ridge, told me that his colleagues had documented a strange phenomenon on tokamak tiles made out of tungsten, an extremely dense metal.
"The fact," Ms. Frawley-O'Dea said, "that he was affiliated with this organization to me disqualifies him for being on this particular panel at this particular time in the history of the church".
C.M.S., in particular, has been plagued by difficulties — during excavations, the soil in Cessy proved so soupy that the ground had to be frozen with liquid nitrogen — and before I went to look at it a physicist who is not affiliated with the project told me that C.M.S. was sometimes referred to as "See a Mess".
A diet that included pine nuts and a grain or tuber with starch is "exactly the kind of collection of plant foods that modern hunter-gatherers have eaten," University of Wisconsin palaeoanthropologist John Hawks, who was not affiliated with this study, told me.
Mays and Beattie's article is therefore "the first of its kind to address the various stages of cannibalism," bioarchaeologist Sarah Schrader of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not affiliated with this study, tells me.
Even though I was wearing a badge which identified me as affiliated with a competitor, a chief design engineer talked freely with me about total R&D costs, development time, and components sources for the new machine.
I regret when people think of the Taliban and then think of me -- that feeling people have after they know I was affiliated with them is painful to me.
My friends -- men affiliated with the Democratic Party -- encouraged me to take that risk.
"I wouldn't have affiliated them with me if I weren't serious," she added.
"The city's filling up with armed groups – some affiliated with Zintan, some affiliated with Misrata," Moayad tells me.
