The variability probably serves an evolutionary purpose, said one of the authors, Dr. Michael Weiss.
When disturbed, whirligig beetles exude a disagreeable-smelling milky liquid, which probably serves for protection.
Czechoslovakia's "velvet divorce", approaching its 20th anniversary, probably serves as the best example in postwar Europe of a relatively smooth parting of the ways.
But the one that probably serves her best at the Manhattan Theater Club, where her "In Real Life" opened last night, is a smile that mocks itself.
The burrowers have almost no tail, although some of them retain a spiny tail tip, which probably serves the animal as an anchoring point when crawling through the soil.
The openings of paired odoriferous glands are found on the cephalothorax of daddy longlegs; when irritated, these animals secrete a fluid containing cyanic acid that probably serves to repel predators.
That's why a movie like "Deterrence," Rod Lurie's clunky political thriller about nuclear brinksmanship in the near future, probably serves some useful purpose, despite its ham-fisted preachiness and mediocre acting.
Another film that probably serves as a tonal contrast to the comfortable, high-altitude air of Telluride is the writer-director Gaspar Noé's "Irreversible," a cruel, powerful look at the effects of violence.
"Most food magazines are about anything but cooking," he said, his voice rising but leavened with the Yankee gentility that probably serves him well when he occasionally serves as a lay minister at the Sandgate Methodist Church in Sandgate, Vt.
JiRaffe Opened four years ago by Josiah Citrin and Raphael Lunetta, and now run by Mr. Lunetta (Mr. Citrin recently opened Melisse; see below), JiRaffe probably serves the best uncomplicated French-style food in metropolitan Los Angeles.
