As starvation becomes a grim reality, some bears are turning to even more desperate measures to feed.
The detected rate of apoptotic induction is higher in cells expressing Grim and measured by flow cytometry than in cells exposed to Actinomycin D and measured by In Cell Western analysis.
Kuhens knew that his prognosis was grim, likely measured in months.
The television images of that grim stampede caught the measure of western betrayal.
While families, friends and the authorities had all but abandoned hope for the missing teenagers, who disappeared on one of the coldest nights of a bitter winter, the recovery and identification of the body brought a measure of grim finality to the misadventure, removing lingering doubts about a tragic ending.
In the third day of round-the-clock labor, a measure of grim order finally seemed to take hold of the rescue and cleanup operation, which has been complicated all along by the fires, collapsing buildings and general sense of chaos that followed Tuesday's terror attack.
Despite several days of hushed concern over rumored terrorist threats and heightened security measures, all that grim topicality suddenly seemed to evaporate following a fresh round of opining over the allegations of sexual abuse leveled against Allen by his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.
I said that I often felt, writing obituaries, that one reason death is interesting to people is that it is grim and engaging in equal measure.
This is no comfort as the forecasts continue to be grim, but it is a measure of the complexity of the physics involved - how air moves in waves, why certain patterns form - that more than 60 years later scientists are still wrestling with the question of how the jet stream operates and what shapes it.
Tuesday's attack was a reminder that even though the death toll in Baghdad had fallen by several measures, volatility remained a grim fact of life here.
