Now, a combination of climate change and cost-benefit analysis could mean simply abandoning parts of the country to the encroaching waves.The policy is known as "managed retreat"—or, for those who find that defeatist, "managed realignment".
Through Peter Sanford, an observer and writer who is Mr. Vidal's contemporary, the book gets a glimpse of Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (two of Peter's friends find the play "a total realignment of the sexes"), meets the divine Dawn Powell (who bristles at Hemingway's inflated reputation) and hears Paul Bowles's catty assessment of Leonard Bernstein.
Soft-clipped read realignment can theoretically find deletions of any size, but it has limited power to detect insertions owing to the short read length of current sequencing technologies.
The realignment a believer can find through prayer in this cyclical narrative provides prayer, hope and promise of deliverance.
I caught up with Amanda Brihed, who underwent forced sterilization when she had male-to-female realignment some years ago, to find out what's been going on.
I caught up with Amanda Brihed, who underwent forced sterilisation when she had male-to-female realignment some years ago, to find out what's been going on.
Curiously, many assessments of this development treated it as an exciting new trend — and maybe even an overnight realignment of where and how Americans find meaning and satisfaction in life.
Do you combine additional surgical procedures, such as a distal realignment and/or lateral retinacular release, when you find an abnormal Q angle (> 10°), or a great tibial tubercle-trochlear groove distance (> 20 mm), or a flattened trochlea?
Even without much meat on its bones, the Pacific realignment "works" so far because so many disparate actors find it useful to believe in.
We'll find out in the years to come whether or not this latest realignment turns out to be a mistake for the league.
