It is a way of getting on with life in the face of extraordinary circumstances — the harsh realities of Indian life that include natural calamities.
L. monocytogenes possess extraordinary capabilities for sustaining harsh conditions during its residency in the environment (e.g. it can utilize limited carbon source), in foods (e.g. it can resist salts and grow at refrigeration temperatures), and in parasitized hosts (e.g. it can escape from immune defense).
Babette Mangolte's extraordinary photography blends soft and harsh light to reveal a diverse domestic landscape of reflection and shadow, matte and gloss, rendering the apartment and its bland, weighty furnishings as expressive as the actors.
Their passionate appeal to end harsh interrogations "made an extraordinary impression on me," he said.
Even under these extraordinary circumstances, the CIA would use harsh interrogation on only Al Qaeda leaders thought to have information about pending attacks — in the end the CIA approved the waterboarding of only three Al Qaeda leaders.
Because, that's not "sending an unequivocal message that controversial administration policies approving harsh interrogations, waterboarding and extraordinary renditions and warrantless wiretapping are over," it's actually just being stupid, short-sighted, and leaving us in more danger.
Mr. Bernanke, 56, hasn't had much time to reflect on whether history's verdict on his extraordinary actions of recent years will be harsh or forgiving.
With extraordinary reserve, he abstained from making even harsher allegations against Widener.
Some of the government's responses to Sept. 11, like extraordinary rendition of suspects to overseas prisons for harsh interrogation, could only have happened with top officials' approval.
It may be too harsh to accuse de Wolfe of "extraordinary social obtuseness," but her greater devotion to her possessions than to her companions bespeaks a superficiality that often shaded into obliviousness, particularly in later years.
