But it's easy to succumb to a paranoid six-degrees-of-separation game, in which the most radical figure in a particular community is always the most important one, or the most extreme passage in a particular writer's work always defines his real-world influence.
First, in his original column, Douthat, without citing any examples, criticized journalists who "succumb to a paranoid six-degrees-of-separation game, in which the most radical figure in a particular community is always the most important one, or the most extreme passage in a particular writer's work always defines his real-world influence".
The five cell lines with extreme high passage numbers had, in fact, FAL values below the average FAL of 0.34 (i.e., DU4475, MCF-7, MDA-MB-435S, MDA-MB-453, and UACC893; Figure 1).
He loves dynamic extremes (a passage in his 1966 cello concerto is marked pppppppp),and unusual rhythms and tempos.The least doctrinaire of composers, Mr Ligeti has said he has no message and is always ready to change his musical language.
Hungarian authorities have raced to erect an 108-mile fence along the country's border with Serbia in recent months, after thousands of people fleeing war and extreme poverty sought passage through the country on their journey to northern Europe.
Kidney stones can also cause extreme pain during passage.
A third element is the aphoristic moralizing, often in Pindar resulting in passages of extreme beauty, even sublimity.
A student of apocalyptic behavior whose previous books deal with Hiroshima, Nazi doctors and the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan, Lifton alternates between informed passages on extreme behavior and an often unconvincing application of these theories to the Bush administration.
Those reactions were mainly directed towards the passages of extreme violence contained in the book, the objectification of women, the use of pornography and the supposed "manipulation" of the reader.
Switch the education and wealth levels between South Carolina and Saudi Arabia and you would find a great number of American Christians acting violently extreme based on some passages found in the Bible.
