The observed pattern in the wild might also reflect plain age differences or adaptive environmental plasticity serving other functions, such as protection from ultraviolet radiation [ 12], crypsis [ 4, 5], disease resistance [ 13], or multiple simultaneous functions [ 14].
Two White Plains girls, ages 12 and 14, were raped, sodomized and held overnight in a Bronx apartment over the weekend by four men they met through a telephone chat line, the police said yesterday.
Brockmeier devotes his considerable gifts of description to the illuminated wounds of his characters, using lush, quiet prose to detail their cancer, abuse, self-mutilation and just plain old age.
Weather and plain old age have left the Capitol dome with more than 1,000 cracks and deficiencies like stains and rust, the architect of the Capitol said in a statement on Tuesday.
The story is horribly familiar: Bourne had planned to celebrate the centenary of Diaghilev and Stravinsky's collaboration with a cast made up solely of centenarian dancers: stress, the punishing choreography and, according to the coroner, plain old age led to the death of eight of them shortly after the press-night performance.
Related point: Data from reaction-time testing make it plain that age also brings huge losses in the ability to react rapidly to changed situations a skill that might matter a lot to bicyclists delivering messages in big-city traffic or truck drivers running into rock slides or airline pilots needing to abort a takeoff.
This is all secondary though, if we're asking ourselves why Kevin McCloud a relatively plain middle aged British guy is the greatest TV host of all time (excluding RuPaul).
The bas-relief on the Arizona elevator depicts, in his words, "the visages of those Indian tribes who have inhabited mountains and plains from ages distant".
When your dog is slowing down in movements but is still able to eat, drink, walk, stand on its own, and can still respond to your calls, this is a sign of just plain old age.
FRANK--William A. Died April 26th, Pompton Plains, NJ, age 88, beloved husband of Barbara Wiener Frank since 1946, father of Margaret Sanfilippo and John Frank, father-in-law of Alice Curtis and Charles Sanfilippo, grandfather of Lisa, Diane, Katherine.
