The peninsula's alluring mix of space, scenery, sea views and proximity to Cape Town, which is never more than an hour's drive away, has long attracted a free-spirited mix of artists, hippies, surfers and ex-pats -- earning the peninsula the nickname "the lentil curtain" for its alternative tendencies.
If the highly colored males tend to contribute better genes of other kinds sometimes, but not always, it is easy to imagine how changes in the environment would keep the alternative, imitative tendency alive.
A high school cheerleader (Natasha Lyonne) with alternative sexual tendencies is shipped off to a heterosexual rehab camp.
But I'm a Cheerleader When Megan Natasha Lyonnee), a high school cheerleader, exhibits alternative sexual tendencies, she is shipped off to True Directions, a heterosexual rehab camp run by the tight-jawed Mary (Cathy Moriarty).
Dispersal in reptiles is thought to be primarily male-biased, although data are sparse and alternative dispersal tendencies (female-biased dispersal or dispersal by both sexes) have not been well investigated [ 30, 31].
In all cases we observed a strong correlation between the tendency of alternative splice sites to be mainly extending or truncating and the exon length: alternative splice sites tend to extend short exons and truncate long ones, with the balance between the extending and truncating alternative sites reached at exons of approximately 90 nucleotides in length.
We find that as overlapping genes become longer, they have a tendency to alternate among alternative overlap phases.
Flaubert, writing a century earlier, had been looking for an alternative to Romanticism, a tendency he defined as broadly as Yvor Winters later did.
There are, of course, risks in what former foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami described this week as "the radical change in strategy" Israel now needs as an alternative "to the traditional tendency of its leaders to make decisions only on the basis of the worst scenario".
Thus in theory, throughout history, sport has proved a creative alternative to our recurring tendency to kill each other.
By thus subordinating what we might call national or racial/ethnic identity to theological identity, Genesis presents an alternative to the modern tendency to regard race as preconditioning all experience, including religious experience.
