In this book, Alexievich explores the terrible human cost of the catastrophe through the voices of more than 500 eyewitnesses, including firefighters, members of the cleanup team, politicians, physicians, physicists, and ordinary citizens, over 10 years.
The situation in Lesotho (pronounced le-SOO-too), a tiny, mountainous kingdom with the world's fourth highest H.I.V. infection rate, mirrors the catastrophe barreling through sub-Saharan Africa.
The author: A chronicler of human financial folly and institutionalized greed, Lewis is the author of The Big Short, a tale of the global financial catastrophe through a group of investors who bet money on the boom going bust; Liar's Poker; and Moneyball, about Billy Beane, general manager of Major League Baseball's Oakland A's, and how he built winning, affordable teams.
Stathmin binds tubulin heterodimers at the microtubule ends and increases the rate of catastrophe through a GTP hydrolysis-dependent mechanism.
The cascade gained momentum and produced catastrophe through the medium of the grid -- which let those electrons flow where they pleased -- and finally produced a shutdown of the whole system.
Michael Hirsh wondered why many of the people who "let the catastrophe" of 2008 happen — through their deregulatory policies in the Clinton administration — were back "running the show".
Only the stem lineage to Placentalia, they said, appeared to hang on through the catastrophe, generally associated with climate change after an asteroid crashed into Earth.
Robert Duvall's celebrated 1997 movie, "The Apostle," played with the same themes that so obsessed Greene and O'Connor -- the flawed individual struggling to find his way through the catastrophe of the everyday.
His two uncles — Jim, an extremely successful and famous defense lawyer at a high-end Manhattan firm, and Bob, a die-hard liberal who works for the legal aid society — offer to help steer him and his mother through the catastrophe.
Four bird lineages lived through the catastrophe and over the next 66 million years, these feathered dino descendants radically expanded and diverged into the approximately 10,500 species living today.
This has been typical as we've traveled through the catastrophe: People with nothing -- hungry, thirsty, seeking their loved ones, burying their dead, caring for their injured -- have shown fortitude, civility and compassion despite their quiet desperation.
