While Mr. Kelly has assigned nearly 1,000 of the department's 36,500 officers to counterterrorism duties, for many of those present yesterday it was the heaviest dose of information about Al Qaeda that they have received.
One reason is that conventions generate a larger "dose" of information than is provided by the daily ebb and flow of news coverage.
Alas, such are the powerful entrenched interests in drugmaking that it will take something stronger than a dose of information to calm the current fever over pill-pricing.While drugmaking has certainly become a more costly and controversial business in recent years, the path to miraculous medicines has never run smooth.
The advent of the World Wide Web spurred the need to transmit heavy doses of information instantaneously, leading to a fiber-optic boom.
We use all of our devices, and in between using all of the life-/game-changing apps we can, we inhale small doses of information -- often unchecked; not vetted; from sources removed far from the center source by the very technology that brings it to us; typically reading the posts that support our preconceived notions and beliefs; rarely delving beyond the headlines or sound bites.
They add their own dose of local information about the effect of soil moisture, lakes, mountains and other influences around particular places, then produce detailed forecasts for tens of thousands of spots around the world.
At best, porn is entertainment with a heavy dose of misleading information.
Meanwhile, the White House is reenacting a macabre ritual -- a repetition compulsion of the warfare state -- carefully timing and titrating each dose of public information to ease the process of escalation.
If the child received two doses of TIV, information was recorded about the first vaccination experience.
The origin of the 2n gamete for each hybrid was determined by identifying which parent had passed on a double dose of genetic information.
