Near the end of his new book, "Hitch-22," which is neither strictly a memoir nor quite a political essay but something in between, Christopher Hitchens informs the reader that he has, at long last, learned how to "think for oneself," implying that he had failed to do so before reaching the riper side of middle age.
At Miami's Borinquen Medical Centers for low-income and uninsured patients, Jason Connor sees hopes crushed as people who thought Obamacare could help them at long last learn otherwise.
It is only after tragedy nearly strikes again that Isabel's family is knocked out of its stupor -- and Isabel at long last learns to live for herself.
In a different study, they showed that this intermittent pattern of EtOH administration induced long lasting deficits in learning ability, as discerned by a decreased number of correct choices in conditional discrimination learning task, and a reduced ability to adapt to a challenging environment in adulthood in a narrow beam task [25].
10.7554/eLife.02109.006 Figure 4. Functional plasticity induced by olfactory learning is long lasting and independent of the reward value of odorants.
And at long last I learned the real key to playing an intelligent and successful Capoeira game, which is the clarity of mind and body that comes from fearlessness.
Long lasting headache attacks.
Monday's installment of "Gossip Girl" was a series finale for the ages: in the final episode of this long-running CW soap, viewers at last learned the identity of the pseudonymous blogger who had been making life miserable for the show's stable of well-to-do Upper East Siders.
On Wednesday night we learned at long last of Mitt Romney's trans-species romance with a very tall, very yellow Muppet of disputed gender.
Yet the language of economic "austerity" finds a striking analogue in his vision of a post-debt society composed of people who have learned, at long last, to live within their means.
It gave me a deep sense of personal satisfaction and renewed faith in my fellow man when I learned, at long last, that leaders of the member countries of the Organization of American States – the western hemisphere's most influential international organisation – had initiated the first serious discussions on how to bring the "war on drugs" to an end.
