Cowardice, selfishness and hypocrisy are bared against a backdrop of beauty in which the smallest thing - the movement of light, the colour of skin - is seen with a heightened, almost hallucinatory acuity.
As for tourist spots — not including the Sept. 11 memorial, which is bound to see heightened security — the Associated Press reports that Mount Rushmore, the White House, the Washington Monument, the Liberty Bell and St . Louis Gateway Arch still have "airport-like" security nearly a decade after 9/11.
Frictions along China's maritime periphery are seen as heightening the need for better communication and closer coordination with other countries' navies.
For example, research shows that cortisol response after alcohol consumption is blunted in groups at risk for alcohol abuse (Schuckit et al. 1987), whereas heightened cortisol response is seen in those at low risk (Wall et al. 1994).
In Tom Rogers' design the stage is one vast dressing room where rails of clothes are on display and wigs are primped, and the way the action is seen through a series of frames heightens the artifice and constantly reminds us that, while we are watching a play performed in the theatre, for the demimonde of late-18th-century Bath all the world was a stage.
It is probable that 2009 will see heightened merger and acquisition activity as drug manufacturers seek to diversify their product lines.
"Plankton at the base of the food chain could be affected, and you could see heightened toxicity among younger species in general," he says.
The episode also doubles down on the amazing technology we've been seeing, adding more depth to the heightened world our heroes inhabit and setting up plenty more mysteries to be explored as the season progresses.
"It's the first time we've seen heightened surveillance for health and safety issues," he says.
The crime was the second gang-related shooting in April 2006 — a year that saw heightened gang-related violence.
What remains to be seen is how much heightened security may impede Southwest's vaunted efficiencies, especially its quick "turn times," or its ability to get planes back into the air after only about 20 minutes on the ground, compared with 45 minutes for most other airlines.
