"It helps tell the story of my company," Ms. Rowley wrote in an e-mail message.
"The way that the Hudson River School paintings came into being is still an untold story, and the landscape here helps tell that story," Ms. Jacks said.
That's not because of the choreography, which is ho-hum, but because for a few moments the dancing helps tell the story, taking the tentative romance of Moose (Adam G. Sevani) and Camille (Alyson Stoner) a few steps further.
"The Princess of the Lake" sculpture at the Sachem library helps tell the story of Princess Ronkonkoma, who was forbidden to marry the man she loved, Hugh Birdsall, and drowned herself in despair.
In particular, they looked at the signal-to-noise ratio, which helps tell them which of the three solutions ("world without us", "human only" or "natural variability") fit the observations best.
So as the road to the White House moved to New Hampshire early Friday, here is a lone anecdote that helps tell the story of what happened at the conclusion of the most competitive, sophisticated contest in the Iowa caucuses in the last 30 years.
