Similarly, using microfluidic techniques, the colonization of distinct patches and sub-micron cavities by E. coli and Bacillus subtilis have been successfully described by systematically decreasing corridor size between a densely populated patch and a nutrient-rich empty patch (Männik et al., 2009).
It shows up in rural Malaysia in richer, emptier villages surrounded by mechanised farms.
"I found it rich, not empty".
It was all a new reality for Gabriel Márquez, 24, who grew up in the boom years when Venezuela was rich and empty shelves were unimaginable.
Some suffer side-effects, including "dumping", when sugary or rich foods empty from the pouch into the intestine too quickly, causing vomiting, faintness and diarrhoea.
The Greeks had a concept of Kairos time, which is not quantitative like our normal conception of time but qualitative — rich or empty, the meaningful hour or the hurried moment.
They also know best how to heal the trauma of those undone by death, and how to fill the hungry with good things and send the rich away empty.
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty.
"He has filled the hungry with good things," says Mary in the Gospel of Luke, "and sent the rich away empty".
At one point Mary, pregnant with Jesus cries out: "God casts the mighty from their thrones and raises the lowly... God fills the hungry with good things and sends the rich away empty..."...
