The experience of Durban does not suggest optimism.
It needs, as Williams suggests, optimism, hope and a real sense of purpose.
That may happen late next year, at a climate shindig in Paris (though past experience suggests optimism should be kept in check).
"I strive for lyrical equilibrium among distinctly different elements, and I like to think I am suggesting optimism, beauty and well-being," Mr. Gussow said of "Three Forms" -- as he could have said of most of his work.
As the Duke economists Manju Puri and David T. Robinson suggest, optimism is like red wine: a glass a day is good for you, but a bottle a day can be hazardous.
Ordinarily, a big "plus" number might suggest optimism about the way the economy is headed, but with worries proliferating about gasoline prices, disruptions in air travel and weaknesses in the nation's supply and delivery system, the popular mood has suddenly grown more somber.
Even the options market does not suggest optimism for the future.
Although we do not know how well our evolutionary coupling approach will handle less obligate interactions, results on the two-component signaling system (histidine kinase/response regulator) both here and in other work (Skerker et al., 2008; Weigt et al., 2009) suggest optimism.
However with a larger sample n = 1000, apart from approach 2 which still suggested negligible optimism, the mean Optimism internal and Optimism external were much more similar for both the NM and WM settings (see Additional file 2: Table S1).
This still gave very small values of Optimism internal, which wrongly suggested negligible optimism.
