This week in the magazine and here online (see Fact), Peter Hessler writes about the attempt to dam the Yangtze River, in China, which, since the Three Gorges Dam was completed, has been rising steadily and flooding towns along its banks.
Lee sat down on a chair and tugged off his work boots, flushed with the yellow avarice of 4 A.M. Darkness flooded steadily out of him, and I absorbed it.
Despite a steadily increasing flood of studies on the use of interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) in detecting latent TB infection (LTBI), the number of studies evaluating specificity, i.e. measuring a test's ability to score LTBI-free subjects as test-negative, is small [ 10].
Apple's continued influence among mobile app developers flies in the face of predictions that the company would steadily lose clout as Android phones flooded the market, presenting developers with a much bigger target audience.
As personal computers flooded onto the market in the 1980s, calculators, pocket-sized and otherwise, seemed steadily less appealing.
Men, women and children flooded the rubble strewn center of town and shouted out slogans against the Shabab, who have steadily alienated the population by imposing amputations and digging up the graves of revered Islamic clerics.
His later conducting of Brahms' funerary Nänie, which the London Symphony Chorus flooded with resplendent tone, also took a while to cohere before rising steadily in an increasingly grand arc.
