If most of the entrants went with big-name authors and their big-name characters, there were some sightings of rara avises: Tom Robbins ("Sissy Hankshaw is finding it hard to type," from @pagfordpages), Mercè Rodoreda ("Colometa is about to let some pigeons die," from @andreu_gonzalez), and even Eric Carle (@Bloomindc's imagined status for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, "Eat, Sleep, Transform").
For example, in Leogane, a rara stronghold, there were banners for a rara competition/parade — a defile (as in "narrow passage requiring a single-file march") of rara, as it was advertised.
Who is this woman, what form of rara avis bedecked in diamonds and plumes?
"Hers is really the first serious study that's been made of Rara," said Mr. Desmangles, a Haitian native.
But the exhilarating battlefield of rara is also a reminder that, in a sense, the war is unending, or at least not yet finished.
Edwidge Danticat: I was in Haiti with my family for Easter, in the middle of rara season, and we spent a week in Jacmel with friends.
She merges modern funk with the easygoing compas and the galloping carnival beat of rara, so her earnest messages arrive in joyful grooves.
One shRNA pool and one control pool were used to evaluate the kinetics of RARA and RARB induction with RA.
Thus, all cases appeared to represent insertions of RARA into 15q24.
Of the three fusion predictions in A08823, two are between PML and RARA: one joining the 5′-end of PML, ending at exon 3, to the 3′-end of RARA, starting at exon 3; the other joining the 5′-end of RARA, ending at exon 2, to the 3′-end of PML, starting at exon 4.
