The underlying premise, borrowed from Slonczewski's 1998 novel "The Children Star," is immediately appealing: sentient one-celled creatures called micros can exist symbiotically within human skulls.
Library opening hours will be shorter.A few professors have coped by holding seminars and tutorials in borrowed premises.
Forest Fringe is back in business in Edinburgh – or not quite in business, since, with its borrowed premises and pay-what-you-can shows, this little haven of the experimental and avant garde is the antidote to the more commercial aspects of the fringe.
"The premise is borrow less, borrow smart and repay well," she said.
Many computer coders once dabbled in the hobby, which explains why so many video games today use a "run through a dungeon and kill monsters" premise, and borrow concepts — avatars, levels, open-ended stories, cooperative game play — pioneered by Dungeons & Dragons.
But both parties have colluded in the basic premise that borrowing to pay for college and starting life saddled with debt is an okay idea.
This excruciating premise is pretty much borrowed from Cecelia Ahern's romantic drama PS I Love You (2007), about a young widow opening letters from her dead husband telling her how to pick herself up and start her life all over again.
Young has borrowed the central premise of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and Carl Sagan's "Contact" and stuffed a globe-spanning soap opera into it.
This is a model of development based on very large amounts of debt, borrowed on the premise of ever increasing property values.
Normally, making Hollywoodish additions to a classic is dangerous, but here it hardly matters; Doyle's irresistible title, premise and characters have been borrowed and reinvented so often that "a lost world story" is close to achieving the generic status of "a rags to riches story".
I'll confess that I've bought into the premise -- which I've borrowed from Rick Santorum -- that there is an "establishment primary" that Romney is winning, a "libertarian primary" that Paul is winning, and a "true conservative primary" in which the vote is getting divided up among Santorum, Gingrich, and Perry.
