"She doesn't pay attention to that kind of thing," a close friend said.
Yet while it is tempting to dismiss the fall's dark offerings as, at best, a return to basics and, at worst, kind of a downer, close inspection reveals any number of green shoots amid the gray.
So, I got to kind of see a close-up of her career, and it's definitely inspired me that doing it independently is almost a better route at this point.
"Is this some kind of a subterfuge to close the government?" Corker also schooled Cruz on Senate procedure.
Virtually every characteristic that has been claimed to be uniquely human has eventually turned out to have some kind of a precursor in a close relative.
THURSDAY'S PUZZLE Readersrs have written to me asking what I really mean when I refer to a theme that is "elegant," and although it's one of those things that may vary with your mileage (beauty being in the eye of the beholder and all), I can kind of get close to a good description based on today's puzzle.
For instance, coelacanth, an ancient kind of fish close to lungfishes and tetrapods, not only has a fat-filled single-lobed lung [ 10], but also a sequence homologous to this mouse Tbx4 region.
"It's kind of a natural reaction to close the doors," he said.
Several fishing buddies in North Carolina recently had a different kind of close encounter with a giant fish.
"For me, at least, what happened is kind of like a death of a close family member.
