There is also the Stone Scramble, an assortment of giant blocks that act as a shortcut for the many children who will be too impatient to climb Outlook Hill on the path.
Other genomic elements like SNPs tend to form smaller scale-invariant clusters within chromosomes, a finding presumably attributable to the random and independent assortment of haplotype blocks, each with distinctive genealogical histories[ 3, 4].
Looming over these bits and pieces is the lunatic tangle of the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a monument to a steel magnate, which is now strewn with an assortment of breeze-block sheds at its base and encircled by a big fence, making it as awkward at ground level as it is on the skyline.
Beijing – once, apparently, a charming ancient city – has been torn down and replaced with a traffic-jammed assortment of functional concrete blocks, interspersed with the occasional stunning pieces of modern architecture.
The wheat grain imports a limited assortment of molecular building blocks from the phloem.
With no hard and fast rules, skirts came in an assortment of guises, from block coloured mini skirts to ethereal chiffon maxis, silhouette skimming pencil skirts and sixties A-line shifts.
Finally, there is Da Leo, a great-looking place featuring a carved wood interior (there is no outside seating here), lovely wainscoting and an eclectic assortment of art including wood block prints and some older black-and-white photographs, all in a very chummy atmosphere, the kind where everyone claps when a birthday cake is brought out from the kitchen.
A versatile scripting vocabulary has been developed for this purpose, enabling the user to apply an assortment of mutations (point changes, block changes, insertions, deletions, duplications, or transpositions) with specified likelihoods.
"Dormant Craters" features the Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble (along with Gamelan Son of Lion) performing on drums, bells, wood blocks, and an assortment of everyday household items.
Democratic politics increasingly resembles a Manichean struggle between a monolithic establishment block and an assortment of extremists who all claim the mantle of the resistance.
