One of the book's more striking bits of minutiae involves how Paris accomplished the startling feat of synchronizing clocks that stood in public places.
The startling feat prompted President Barack Obama to ask his newly formed bioethics commission to examine the implications of the Venter study and other kinds of synthetic biology, such as creating biological circuits by putting components together in a cell.
Griese's Ailment Revealed One of the most startling physical feats this year was accomplished quietly by Brian Griese, the Denver Broncos quarterback who played much of this season even though the cartilage in his throwing shoulder was basically torn in half.
A separate Odissi lineage was (and remains) that of the gotipuas, boys trained until puberty to dance women's roles and to perform acrobatic feats and tableaus (it was startling to see two of these troupes rehearsing in Orissa), and a third Odissi strain was a folk tradition.
LeBron James, also known as the Chosen One, added to his substantial body of incredible individual feats Friday night with a startling performance against the Celtics in Game 3. James was at his ferocious best, scoring 21 points in the first quarter.
Although the feats of derring-do are impressive (especially in the startling 3-D prints), the dialogue is dull and stilted.
Equipped with these newly developed real-time tools, the beast has successfully performed these feats with and without a harness, galloping down gangways at a startling rate, with only slightly less grace than its IRL cat counterpart. .
The startling changes in the Olympic schedule, and the fact that only one rider is allowed per country, almost certainly means Britain's cyclists won't replicate the feats of Beijing.
The result was startling.
