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A big part of the problem is Jennifer Aniston, who plays Nina as if her confusion is a consequence less of so many modern splintered paradigms than of plain simple-mindedness.
Rather than following the one true way, conservatives have "splintered" into Rockefeller Republicanism, Pat Buchananism, and Nixon-style coalition building.
He drifted away from his guests to the television, where Close found him channel surfing, staring at the procession of silent images as they blinked past, his once-legendary attention span splintered into nothingness.
In both settings α-SMA levels were reduced compared to controls grown on noncoated tissue culture plastic or without ascorbic acid (see similar results in [ 47 ] ). Taken together these results suggest that the presence of collagen and the stressed to relaxed state transition of the ECM alters or dominates TGFβ1 signal transduction (see also [ 25 ] ). The corresponding reduction in α-SMA is in agreement with recent in vivo data on splintered vs. unsplintered rat wounds [ 48 ] , but differs from in vitro results on human gingival fibroblasts [ 49 ] .
By the 11th century, the caliphate had splintered into a mosaic of fractious states — 26 at one point, and the Balearics became an independent emirate.