The other isotopes have much briefer half lives lasting between milliseconds to seconds.
But that meeting in 2002 was much briefer, and Mr Jiang was just days away from stepping down.
Pettitte, who has 201 victories and four World Series rings, is mentioned in a much briefer passage.
The direct macroeconomic consequences of September 11th, for all the deadly terror of that day, were much briefer.* Irreversibility, Uncertainty and Cyclical Investment".
Careful, controlled, long-term studies of institutional programs have not shown intensive inpatient therapies to be superior to much briefer outpatient interventions.
The sensuality is heightened by the uncredited costumes: bright briefs for all four, the women's much briefer than the men's.
Next year, though, the ordeal will be much briefer for millions of taxpayers who rely on professionals to prepare their tax returns.
Mr. Bush is not the first president to tour Auschwitz while in office -- Gerald R. Ford made a much briefer stop, under half an hour, in 1975.
Yet there's a climactic touch: a takeoff on the visionary mega-gravitational deformations of "2001," which, though much briefer than Kubrick's sequence, delivers an astonishment that's no mere parody but a worthy successor.
Mr. Gourevitch's eloquent, impeccable book, much briefer than his prize-winning "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda," concerns a double murder that occurred in 1970.
