Death and amputations underscore most of the lessons Viesturs gleans from these affecting expeditions: never rappel using a ski pole as an anchor, always wand your route (that is, leave a trail of sticks should a storm wipe out your tracks), never head for the summit too late in the day, never have a love affair mountainside.
Though the skewed distance distribution underscores that most of the associations involve relatively closely located HCEs and genes (Figure S5), the fact that half of the HCE-gene pairs are more than 6.2 Mb apart suggests that a portion of HCEs may be related to (if to any) very distant genes.
Still, the warning underscored that most of the likely targets in the United States, including cellphone networks and electric utility grids, are in private rather than government hands.
Alonzo often says, "When I have dementia"; this phrasing, she explains, is based on a rational calculation of her odds, given her family history, but it also underscores that, for most of us, mental decline is inevitable.
President Barack Obama said yesterday that Akin's comments underscore why politicians — most of whom are men — should not make health decisions on behalf of women.
It is a date for which gift-givers have scrimped and saved, home cooks have basted and baked, and, perhaps underscoring its significance most of all, for which children have tried to behave.
In the series "Rose on a Hillside," he keeps the rose but restlessly changes the background — a European town, a country cottage, a cluster of skyscrapers — underscoring an interconnectedness that most of us, without the help of an artist, will never fully recognize.
A new reanalysis of the Dmanisi skulls presented at the meeting added fuel to this debate by underscoring just how primitive most of the skulls were.
But it underscores a truth Brill spends most of the book trying to avoid: his case is not airtight, and reasonable doubts remain about his subjects' prescriptions for reform.
Between escapades, he more than justifies his book's mock-portentous subtitle by providing us with delicious historical tidbits, most of which underscore Western culture's inability to rationalize the ineluctable need for caffeine with the ineffable sense that anything this powerful must be slowly killing us.
