"Here was one in the line of generations leading out from Stanley Dunham, the what-if of a less insistent grandmother, a disoriented cow, and the teenage Stanley immolated on a roadway in Kansas".
Today, as we think about the tens of thousands of United States soldiers in Iraq -- and in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world fighting the global war on terrorism -- we should say to all of them: "You join a long line of generations of Americans who have fought freedom's fight.
Mr. Marsalis locates lines and looks across them — lines of generation, culture, race and creed — then celebrates whatever he finds worth passing on to the next generation.
The present study shows promoter genome-wide DNA methylation changes in the germ line of F3 generation rats whose F0 generation mothers were exposed to the endocrine disruptor vinclozolin.
Franklin Bruno is the just the latest son of a former world champion to turn to boxing in what is a steady line of second generation battlers.
Both orange and brown scallops used in the present study were from a line of F2 generation produced by continuous crossing orange parental scallops.
Each in the stepped line of the generations was a taunt to the next: a taunt to exceed, go further.
Dawkins added: "As it happens, my ancestry also boasts an unbroken line of six generations of Anglican clergymen, from the Rev William Smythies (born 1635) to his great great great grandson the Rev Edward Smythies (born 1818).
Elaine Hoffman Watts, 77, a third-generation klezmer musician who plays drums, was attending with her daughter, Susan, 43, a trumpeter, and her grandson, Douglas Siegel, 15, a trombonist, making a line of five generations.
David Jr., the youngest, was last in a line of six generations of youngest Hudson sons named David.
