Then there is the sad drama of useful players caught in the crossfire.
One view is that the technology has such potential that its eventual introduction on a large scale is inevitable – whole-genome NGS should be introduced as soon as possible and we can wait for the number of useful tests to catch up with the technology.
The police, she said, have found social media a useful tool, helping to catch hapless looters who posted pictures of stolen goods online, and communities have used the same networks to gather together to repair their neighborhoods.
Wouldn't that time -- two-thirds of an entire minute -- be more useful if you could catch up on the world or on popular culture, check a stock price or do anything but just stand there as life slips through the hourglass?
While the spell-check function can be useful, it doesn't catch everything, and will sometimes automatically change words that you don't want changed, or miss misspellings of words that spell other words (such as exited versus excited).
During summer's riots, the cameras proved very useful: 127 individuals were caught on camera, leading to 88 charges.
Mr Edwards dropped out of the race four days later.On January 28th Mr Obama caught another useful gust.
Making a Test debut in an Ashes Test, he could easily have been a rabbit in the headlights but he delivered with seven catches and useful first-innings runs.
Export-led growth is a useful way to facilitate catch-up development, but China's dollar peg has fueled inflation and led to imbalances that may hasten its entry into a middle-income trap and a growth slowdown.
This approach gently and divertingly reminds us that while Jaffe's popular novel may not have been a major work of art (and she never claimed it was), it focused a clear and abidingly useful gaze on women caught in a moment in time that isn't as distant as you might suppose.
This measure was useful mainly for analyzing catch-trials: it indicates approximately the point at which the subject started to apply force perpendicular to the direction of movement, implying where and when he/she expected the external force to appear.
