Although political discourse has long been dominated by the belief that Scotland possesses a more egalitarian, left-of-centre politics than England, until the 1990s survey evidence demonstrated that the same wasn't true of its social attitudes: rather when it came to divorce, abortion and homosexuality, Scotland was significantly to the right of "Tory England".
Rather, when it digs in the bottom of streams with its bill, its electroreceptors detect tiny electrical currents generated by muscular contractions of its prey, so enabling it to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects, which continuously stimulate its mechanoreceptors.
Ironically, the strength of this host tropism prediction system lies not in its almost perfect prediction accuracy, but rather when it makes a mistake in classifying avian or human proteins.
First, the important year to look at in California isn't when the medical marijuana initiative passed — 1996 — but rather when it was implemented in the form of "dispensaries," around 2004.
Still, our current phobia about flesh — not when it comes to showing a sexy glimpse of skin but rather when it comes to revealing wobbly or lumpy parts of the body that have not been toned to a fare-thee-well — is at an all-time high.
Mr. Hodges, working from an exceptionally cunning script by Paul Mayersberg, traces his hero's downward spiral with patient, chilly precision, and the course of the disaster feels so inexorable that you're shocked when the worst doesn't happen -- or, rather, when it happens in a way that leaves the apparently ill-fated Jack untouched.
