The steep-flanked Mississippi Valley has the effect of concentrating life: barges, trains, automobiles, bikes and migrant birds are all funneled down the same corridor.
Such habits might sound outlandish to an American audience, but for thousands of years, Hindu practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine have sipped their own pee in order to concentrate life force, in a traditional practice known as Shivambu Shastra.
Next, he wrote a simple aqueous geochemistry model to calculate how much of these gases would have been dissolved in shallow lakes and reservoirs — environments that would have been more conducive to concentrating life-forming reactions, versus vast oceans, where molecules could easily dissipate.
Aside from promising, like almost everyone, to devote more resources to the military, Mr. Cheney concentrated on life at home.
And yet this writer admits himself that when he chooses a passage to read out, he too is drawn to those rare places where the point is concentrated and "life could be observed in a meaningful arrangement".
Instead of 'wasting time' on thinking or asking questions about the creation of plants or other living beings, he concentrated on living his life in accordance with his religious beliefs and preparing for life after death.
It also concentrates on life as a single mother, specifically the life of Hartig, who separated from her first husband, Scott Peirsol, and later divorced.
This season is life in miniature; life concentrated.
