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Biggest minus: the clunky musical numbers, which "hang like cinder blocks" around the neck of the production (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Critics also complain that the movie is short on emotional power, partly because "it tries to do too much" and be all things to all audiences (Michael Wilmington, the Chicago Tribune ). (David Edelstein says the film "feels as if it might have been called Indiana Moses and the Temple of Doom ." Click to read the rest of his review in Slate .)
For example, black women averaged 6.3 YOL, but only 4.2 YHL of a maximum possible 7. We calculated some additional descriptive statistics, shown in the final two lines: years of unhealthy life (YOL minus YHL) and years lost to death (7 minus YOL).
The intensity of the immunoreactive bands of phospho-p44/42 MAPK from insulin-treated cells was 0.92 ± 0.10 relative to controls, which were made equal to one (data are the mean of two experiments performed in duplicate plus or minus the standard deviation of the mean).
Values for β-galactosidase activity represent the average of three or more experiments and the values varied no more than plus or minus 5% from the mean.
1) resolved three major clades within Subtribe Artemisiinae that correspond to the following: 1) all subgenera of Artemisia minus Dracunculus, 2) Artemisia subg.