It lengthens the arm, yet brings it to an abrupt stump.
George Barnard's pictures of the American South taken in 1866 (Charleston is shown above), one year after the civil war finished, are both eerie and picturesque, with ruins that look like stage sets.As the exhibition progresses and the time lag between event and photograph lengthens, the results become more uneven.
On the other hand, the law lengthens the average prison sentence and raises the average age of inmates, so costing the state an additional $500m a year.
Success is a great killer of innovation: there is an ever greater danger that, as Pixar's list of blockbusters lengthens, its "creatives" will take ever fewer risks and its managers will become ever more complacent (as happened, by the way, at Toyota).
The war on drugs may be quieter, but it is not over.The drugs bill lengthens sentences for dealers and allows the police to test people for drugs without charging them first.
When they rise, consumers prolong payments and the duration of these securities lengthens.
The list lengthens every time a new property is discovered in a slightly differently shaped or sized tube.
This is true even on the battlefield: soldiers in Afghanistan faced around 47 MicroMorts a day, but the aircrews that bombed Germany in the second world war endured about 25,000 MicroMorts per mission.The authors also introduce a related and equally eye-catching way of expressing risk, called the MicroLife the amount, on average, by which a given activity shortens or lengthens one's life.
As well as preventing any damaged cell that overheats from affecting others, being able to keep all of them cool makes charging easier, improves reliability and lengthens battery life.
A warmer climate lengthens growing seasons and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should stimulate photosynthesis.
But the list of EU applicants lengthens by the week.
