She studies the tiny fish in her quest to unravel one of the knottiest problems in biology: how the acting of genes is encouraged or inhibited in cells.
Earlier this summer, I set a daring goal: I would embark on a 10,000-mile 10,000-mileroadLondon tripongolia, across desert and hostile territory in a tiny car on a quest fromadventure.
William Golding writes: "There were creatures that lived in this last fling of the sea, tiny transparencies that came questing in with the water over the hot, dry sand.
For that matter, the nuclear drama of "Kiss Me Deadly," from 1955, with its quest for the tiny "great whatsit," suggests not just the ambient menace of catastrophe but the oddness of its arising from infinitesimal causes.
But utility companies, whether water, gas, oil or electric, regularly send out troops to dodge maniacal dogs and inadvertently furrow lawns in their quest to read tiny dials on meters that are often underground or hidden in crawl spaces.
They have come to absorb the wisdom and values of 76-year-old Warren Buffett and 83-year-old Charlie Munger, who sat on a tiny stage at the cavernous Quest Center and answered questions for over six hours.
In an environment so preoccupied by the quest for purity, the tiniest contact between the sexes, even the glimpse of a hand or a brief meeting of the eyes, becomes charged.
Such is the case with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), an experiment so grand that it spans two countries in its quest for subatomic particles so tiny that they are literally almost nothing.
Corey Cole told me that with a $400,000 target, Hero-U will have a "tiny" budget compared to the last few Quest for Glory games.
Banks should not be allowed to jettison community reinvestment responsibilities -- which occupy a tiny fraction of banking assets -- in the quest for profit.
