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Blacks aren't celebrating because they fear an economic downturn and because equality is still elusive.
My Columbia colleague Simon Schama's Dead Certainties , also now several years old, was a deliberate effort to play with the elusive boundary between fiction and history and to suggest how the two might be fruitfully joined.
Readers should not for a moment think that my adverse criticism of Jeans's book has anything remotely to do with my own: the two are of entirely different purpose and scope, and I would have welcomed any help or new insight into some of the problems and questions that vex anyone trying to deal with such an elusive subject as nautical language.
But while there are qualitative “stories” of this kind in the literature for many seasonal phenomena, convincing quantitative evidence to support them remains largely elusive.
Further experiments will be required to determine the mechanism of life-span extension in this line, and the elusive nature of the intronic gene suggested the name Red herring . The northern analyses also indicated induction of a small amount of a large transcript containing the encore coding region.