We settle in for the only option, a £47 tasting menu, which affords us time to catch up on gossip… Oh, who am I kidding?
Unless there is simply no (as in zero) money to go on vacation, vacations afford us some time away from the difficulties of everyday existence.
While the extended daylight hours afford us more time to be outdoors and active, we still need to keep in mind that sun exposure can be deleterious to our skin health.
The trouble is that our complicated, busy lives do not afford us enough down time to actually allow the brain the downtime it needs.
This fundamental shift has provided unprecedented opportunities that for the first time afford us the ability, i.e., means, breadth, and depth of data, to truly address human biology at the systems level.
True, life rarely affords us enough time to get to know everyone we'd like to.
This afforded us ample time to feel guilty (me), nap (Oliver), question what we were doing (me), read news stories on our iPhone (Daniel), look around nervously (me), watch a video about cat parasites (all of us) and whine (Oliver and me).
Taken together, technologic advances to detect CTCs reliably in very early-stage cancer patients may afford us to determine a therapeutic time window to target "colonization genes" and mitigate metastatic progression of the disease.
But communicating in-person also affords us real-time feedback.
We thank you for the privacy you have afforded us during this difficult time".
Obviously, technology has afforded us huge gains in time in some very real ways.
