"People feel estranged from political candidates, and they hunger after knowledge about them," he said.
We continue to study these medicines to add to the scientific knowledge about them and to determine whether they reduce cardiovascular disease, the country's No. 1 killer.
It is now one of biology's "model systems" -- animals studied by so many scientists, from so many angles, that knowledge about them snowballs, feeding on itself.
But because anthrax and similar infections have occurred so rarely in this country, most doctors and nurses have, at best, only textbook knowledge about them.
Like many Americans, I posted patriotic rants on Internet message boards after 9/11, but my interest in the "War on Terror" has waned and my only knowledge about them comes from "Saturday Night Live".
It is in the end a deeply stirring book, in being able to find the vivid wild in places that are so trammelled with our sterile banks of knowledge about them.
Students will learn where the monuments are located, their purpose/meaning, and be asked to share if they have visited the monuments or have any other prior knowledge about them.
The keepers of the springs were discreet, but knowledge about them spread by word of mouth, and many Southern Californians found their way to them — even Charles Manson and his followers are said to have passed through.
Our real job as museum curators is to look after artefacts from the past, yet also to be the repository of knowledge about them, to be expert, to have spent 10,000 hours immersed in the subject.
Any way of systematising knowledge about them would thus be welcome, starting with features that the genes which cause diseases have in common.On the face of it, genes that cause diseases do share one thing: they are, in a technical sense, non-essential.
"I do think the Chinese are uncomfortable with all the musical chairs of defense personnel under Kim Jong-un and their lack of knowledge about them," said Victor D. Cha, who ran North Korea policy at the National Security Council during the presidency of George W. Bush.
