In the wondrous "Wind-Up Bird Chroniclonely lonely man named Toru crawls down to the bottom of an empty well, hoping the concentration brought on by sensory deprivation will help him "to leap from one reality to another".
Let's hope his concentration is on space and technology.
Bornholm expects that the agency will opt for "monitored natural attenuation"—in other words, let Mother Nature take care of the problem, and hope that contaminant concentrations will decrease over time through natural processes such as biodegradation and dispersion.
In Sichuan Province in southwestern China, students studied in a hospital, hooked up to oxygen containers, in hopes of improving their concentration.
If we turn to these dirtiest of fuels, instead of finding ways to phase out our addiction to fossil fuels, there is no hope of keeping carbon concentrations below 500 p.p.m. — a level that would, as earth's history shows, leave our children a climate system that is out of their control.
That proposal affects 13 of the players that Gatland hopes can maintain their concentration on the pitch instead of off-field developments which he claimed the regions were driving.
"We are hoping that this concentration of people will lead to work," said Patrick Delatour, the minister of tourism, after a meeting with President René Préval.
Ballet requires dedication, strength, confidence, bravery, endurance, grace, hope, joy, passion, concentration, memory, self-esteem, flexibility, knowing who you are, critical analysis, adaptability, ability to learn quickly, pain tolerance and eventually, really ugly feet.
That is why UNICEF is currently working with 25 countries in the hope that the concentration of additional resources and interventions can make girls' enrolment equal to boys' over the next three years - thus the name, 25 by 2005.
And yet Murakami's relatively advanced age (he was not 18, as Sagan had been, or 23, like Fitzgerald, or even 28, like Camus) enabled him to situate his rather fragile story in a more robust frame; for all its concentration on the hopes and uncertainties of adolescence, and its charming descriptions of early sexual fumblings, there is nothing callow about Norwegian Wood.
