For astounding improvements in life expectancy, read population time-bomb.
With one-third of the land mass in Detroit now vacant, the development plan for the city has been to first concentrate on building back "density" (for which read, "population") in four distinct neighbourhoods – all less than a 10-minute drive from one another – Downtown, Midtown, Corktown and Eastern Market.
When we drove into the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel's deserted parking lot, the temperature on the rental car dashboard read 114 degrees and the sign we had passed on the city's limit read, "Population 4".
The sequence read population was tested for 5' and 3' prime bias since the libraries were created with poly d(T) priming.
Interestingly, a comparison of genic content by weight indicated that the overread contigs were gene-poor; none of the 38 contigs with weights below 1 × 10-3 (representing 56,827 reads, or 24% of the total read population for the run) contained any identifiable gene sequences.
The sign you pass as you ride into the town reads: Population – "about 50"; Dogs – "more than 100".
Authors whose work is not for sale in that format risk missing a large and growing segment of the reading population.
I could also mention the fact that for many of us fairy tales are our first body of myth — the Greek gods and goddesses tend to come later — but that's surely true for most of the reading population as well.
To a stunning degree, for a period of over half a century, Salinger managed to convince a significant portion of the reading population that his words and actions should be exempt from scrutiny for the simple reason that he wrote those nine stories, and "The Catcher in the Rye".
Finally, using 724 ratings derived from reader-book pairs, we showed that RD values were significantly different between women who preferred avant-garde literature (11 novels) and those who preferred other long fiction (21 novels), even though average ratings from the reading population at large were nearly identical for both groups of books.
