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Their ventures into social topics focus on alcohol, drugs, domestic violence, adultery, divorce, illegitimacy, crime, and urban decay.
The book argues that only children receive closer parental attention and that limiting population will stop environmental decay.
The amplitude of this decay represents about 80% of the initial absorbance depletion.
It was this kind of bungling study that highlighted the need for an exacting protocol that would steer researchers around the significant pitfalls posed by DNA decay and contamination.
But the vein of regret, misery, and the Lynchian promise of decay is always just below the surface--and always palpable.