On everything from futuristic concept cars to 2004 models on dealers' lots now, once lowly lights have been turned into design points, helping to differentiate models and set cars apart in terms of technology -- and image.
But the traditional light bulb — that lowly orb of glass, filament and threaded metal base — has become a powerful emotional symbol, conjuring both consumer anxiety over losing a familiar and flattering light source and political antipathy to government meddling.
Probe TR070452 reveals light-induced gene expression of the sum of Os01g63270.1 and -.2, whereas probe TR034207 shows only moderate light induction of the lowly expressed Os01g63270.2.
Was there a secret hijacking of the chamber by lowly worms that has suddenly come to light?
And now two Chinese researchers have proved, at least theoretically, that insights borrowed from the lowly bacterium E. coli could markedly increase the throughput of a real-world traffic light in Guangzhou.
The light arms and armour of the retiarius thus established him as the lowliest, most disgraced, and most effeminate of the gladiator types.
Their rock, third baseman Chipper Jones, lost a high-bouncing ball in the lights this week before Omar Infante, his former teammate who is now on the lowly Florida Marlins, hit a two-run game-winning home run off Craig Kimbrel, Atlanta's sterling rookie reliever.
Legend has it that as a lowly researcher, he was snatched from a backroom and placed behind a desk, blinking under the studio lights.
The fuse was lit once Robbins's first father-in-law got Harold, then a failed grocer and lowly clerk, a job at Universal Pictures, where he soon clawed his way up from shipping clerk (by some accounts) to the bookkeeping department.
