Because they're shot from on high, they capture with startling clarity both the voluminousness of the pale cloud that swallowed Lower Manhattan and the sharpness of its edges, a reminder of the beauty of the morning out of which so much tragedy so quickly roiled.
There are two important exceptions, he said: influenza, which mutates so quickly that immunization one year does not protect from the next year's strains, and H.I.V., which can mutate during a single infection.
Not so for the shuttle, which speeds so quickly through the atmosphere that those failures would almost certainly lead to disaster.
These drugs — which act so quickly that they can be used in anesthesia— are now being made in clandestine Chinese and American labs.
It was "a surprisingly easy decision" to accept the Clear Channel offer, Mr. Sillerman said, which came "so quickly, less than a month" ago.
Police and education chiefs denied they had been unprepared but admitted they were taken by surprise by the amount of snow which fell so quickly.
"I wouldn't underestimate the difficulties of getting the bill through the whole Congress," said Mr. Kirk shortly after the vote, which happened so quickly it surprised even some of the senators on the committee.
Now, the mystery, and controversy that has shrouded this vessel - which sank so quickly compared with the 160 or so minutes taken by the Titanic - could soon be lifted.
I think that history will judge, and that "Funny People," which passed so quickly from the theatres this summer, will eventually be widely recognized as the personal, soulful, accomplished, and complex work that it is.
