Temporal studies also rely on a fixed network of pollution monitors, and these monitors can often be far from subjects' homes.
A runner-up for the Carnegie medal for the best children's book of the year, The Warden's Niece was an assured first novel and Avery never strayed far from the subject matter, the style or the quality of it in her subsequent novels.
Even more important, perhaps, is Gass's humaneness -- the willingness to forgive his far-from-perfect subject, to allow and even revel in the contradictions that others might make the mistake of trying to "resolve".
Still, she never gets far from the subject that brought her notoriety.
"My high-line answer was we're so far from the subject it's hard to know.
When Phil Pierce gets back from assembly, he explains over a quick coffee that art is a far from neglected subject in this school.
Over some 50 books, he has seldom strayed far from the subject of the past and the traces it has left in the present.
Her son has an active father — Lieberman's former husband, Tim Cline — but conversations never stray too far from the subject of male role models and paternal abandonment.
Reflecting the social preoccupations of its own time more than the Roman Republic's, "Cleopatra," the 1963 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, never veered far from the subject of sex and adultery.
Before Mr. Wondrich was one of New York's most revered cocktail authorities, he was a college English professor, and before that the bassist in a psychedelic punk band, A Blind Dog Stares, but now I'm getting a bit too far from the subject at hand.
