National Princess Week is just about upon us.
Springtime appears to be just about upon us in New York, a town of broken promises, well-spent dreams, and lit-up boulevards.
If the scientific and scholarly world has an equivalent of filmdom's annual, pre-award "Oscar fever" of late February, it's just about upon us: Beginning on October 3rd, the committee that decides the Nobel Prizes will notify a select group of honorees that they've won science's highest award.
Others of us prefer Laidback Dad, ready, just about, if called upon, but much preferring to let you learn for yourself, which also means, conveniently, that he can get on with what he wants to do himself.
In the received history that just about everyone agrees upon, many biologists during the first half of the 20th century assumed that adaptations evolve at all levels of the biological hierarchy, including individuals, social groups, species, and ecosystems.
Southfork Kitchen has drawn upon just about every experience or interest I have ever had, both obvious and all but forgotten, from music to design, food to entertainment, media to human interaction (oy, those human interactions!).
I was actually reading it in that cafe because I am just about to foist it upon a class of creative writing students, as part of my ongoing quest to thrust this novel on people whenever I get the chance.
Indeed, NATO might by then have lost its last chance of preventing the Pashtun population in the south from throwing in its lot with the Taliban.That the return of the Taliban would be dangerous, not only for Afghanistan but for the world, is something that just about everybody can agree upon, from the most red-blooded American Republican to the softest pink European.
Hypothesizing could be based upon just about anything, although Milne believed that certain very general rational principles derived from aesthetic beliefs about universal order and regularity would be the most fruitful.
Referring to his "cack-handedness", Simon described him as "screwing up just about everything he touches" upon his return to the AAU, a sentiment she repeated after Penny's death.
For the "Digital Hug" performances, GayBird draws upon just about every resource and experimental technique afforded to a contemporary electronic music composer he has custom-made instruments that he himself designed, an interactive audiovisual installation, video mapping, custom-made iPad apps that are used to program the music and, ever electronic concert's pièce de résistance, a dancing robot.
