His family lived at the western end of the San Fernando Valley, which was at that time much like the present day Simi Valley--the white suburb where, as the world knows, a jusry recently found four Los Angeles policement not guilty of various charges stemming from the beating of Rodney King..
Goold transplants the action from Puccini's semi-make-believe, dynastic China, to a Chinese restaurant (designed by Miriam Buether) very much in the present day staffed by cleaver-wielding kitchen staff wearing pigs' heads, with Ping, Pang and Pong as murderous chefs, and a clientele containing every contemporary stereotype from Elvis lookalikes to a Chelsea pensioner.
Such historic trends have continued very much into the present day, and recently Transparency International categorized Ukraine as one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
Subsequent endosymbioses of primary-plastid-containing eukaryotes by nonphotosynthetic hosts, called "secondary endosymbiosis", gave rise to much of the present day diversity of protists [ 3].
It's pretty much the present-day equivalent of 1950s duck-and-cover drills in grade schools and backyard bomb shelters.
Her vigilance in repelling impertinent visitors has pretty much lasted to the present day.
Beverley Naidoo's The Other Side of Truth (Puffin, £4.99) comes much more from the present day.
Until quite recently, paleoclimatologists like deMenocal rarely bothered with anything much closer to the present day; the current interglacial — the Holocene — which began some ten thousand years ago, was believed to be, climatically speaking, too stable to warrant much study.
Studies about energy consumption, distributing and planning have much importance at the present day.
Though he is planning a historical novel, it will have much to say about the present day.
This is because the argument assumes a Solar System much like that of the present day with the one exception of a circumjovian disk which is then allowed to dissipate on a long timescale (106 107yr).
