This year's flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting older people from the harshest strain this season, proving only 9 percent effective, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Mr. Awlaki's demand that they make a choice, devoting themselves to a harsh, fundamentalist strain of Islam, offered clarity, he said.
After years of quietly watching a harsh, puritanical strain of Islam enter America, many moderate Muslims are speaking out in favor of a more tolerant form of their faith.
B5 MUSLIMS IN AMERICA -- After years of quietly watching a harsh, puritanical strain of Islam enter America, many moderate Muslims across the country are speaking out in favor of a more tolerant form of their faith.
Salt traders in baggy garments pad about in harmony with the harsh conditions, never straining against hardships.
High-temperature harsh-environment dynamic strain sensors are needed in multiple contemporary industrial and defense monitoring and control applications, in particular in power plants, metal manufacturing, and aerospace industries.
Institutions and governments represent an ever narrower strain of harsh opinion.
At last, feasibility of the designed displacement amplifier is analyzed from loading force, amplification ratio and environmental temperature under harsh environment for online strain monitoring using FEA.
It will especially seek projects in "energy intensive" regions where the power supply may be limited, or strained by harsh weather for example.
These data clearly indicate a higher degree of tolerance to heat stress in the selected strains, as evident from their lower glycerol yield and improved ethanol yield relative to the control strains, under harsh conditions.
