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  §3. Malory’s "Morte d’Arthur". XIV. English Prose in the Fifteenth Century. II. Vol. 2. The End of the ...
It is in the course of the story that the multiplicity of sources is at times discernible—in the failure of certain portions to preserve a connecting thread, in the interruption of the story of Tristram, in the curious doubling of names, or the confusion of generations; the style reveals no trace of inharmonious originals.
These disinterested heroes, who give away all they win with the magnanimity of an Audley at Poictiers, these tireless champions of the helpless, these eternal lovers and their idealised love, are of no era, any more than the forests in which they for ever travel.
Malory, however, on the threshold of an age which would require dramatic motive or, at least, probability, saved his book from the fate of the older, unreasoned fiction by investing it with an atmosphere, impossible to analyse, which withdraws his figures to the region of mirage.
www.bartleby.com /212/1403.html   (714 words)

  
 Utopian surgery? The case against anaesthesia in surgery, dentistry and childbirth
An advertisement for one such public entertainment promised that "the effect of the gas is to make those who inhale it either laugh, sing, dance, speak or fight, etc., etc., according to the leading trait of their character.
Historical curiosities aside, the era of surgical anaesthesia was inaugurated in a public demonstration inside the same surgical amphitheatre by Wells' former apprentice and colleague, William Morton (1819-1868).
He contended that the Biblical "sorrow" was better translated as toil, an allusion to the muscular effort a woman exerted against the anatomical forces of her pelvis in expelling her child at birth.
www.general-anaesthesia.com   (12365 words)

  
 TVB: At the Threshold of an Era
here are several reasons not to watch "At the Threshold of an Era": you'll go broke renting it because it is a 100 episodes, your eyes would get very tired after watching it, most of it you can (and should) fast-forward, the plot is quite ludicrous and the characters are rather poorly written up.
The beginning of "Threshold" is carelessly thrown together as the viewer is introduced into the lives of three childhood friends--played by Gallen Lo, Sunny Chan, and Roger Kwok respectively, who have quite some different personalities.
The only women in "Threshold" worth mentioning are those played by Maggie Siu and Lisa Wang Ming Chuen who seem to have a mind of their own--and use it too.
www.spcnet.tv /tvb_threshold.shtml   (769 words)

  
 The Campaign for WPI - The Threshold of a New Era
Just as machines remade the world in the 19th century, and electricity in the 20th, the wonders of microprocessors, fiber optics, biotechnology, biomaterials, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence are creating a new reality for the century ahead.
In this reality, there are few professions that do not require an understanding of technology, few aspects of our lives where technology does not play a role, and few parts of the Earth that technology does not reach.
An opportunity because WPI has become a model for leadership in higher education, and in the process has gained significantly in visibility and reputation.
www.wpi.edu /Campaign/NewEra/opportunity.html   (504 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Threshold: Books: Caitlin R. Kiernan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Details of Dancy's wild story inexplicably jibe with an anomaly Chance finds in the fossil record, and a pattern gradually emerges that points to an inconceivably ancient entity surviving from Earth's prehistory that is consciously shaping their lives and miseries to suit its inscrutable purposes.
Threshold, which is her second commercial novel (and the first involving Chance Matthews and Deacon Silvey), is one of those brilliant exercises that leaves the reader stunned and hungry for more.
Threshold is a fine blend of Kiernan's own imagination as well as her schooling in palentology.
www.amazon.com /Threshold-Caitlin-R-Kiernan/dp/0451458583   (2298 words)

  
 Threshold of a New Era
THAT AN OFFICIAL of the Federal Republic of Germany was sacked last month for comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler was proper, but not because of the insult to Bush.
It is clear that, with the American president intent upon a new program of moralistic imperialism, beginning with a war in Iraq, we are in what might be called a threshold period, leading from one conception of society to another as yet undefined one.
A historic threshold had been crossed, but what everyone saw by 1975, few had seen in the pivotal period of 1963-65.
www.commondreams.org /views02/1017-02.htm   (915 words)

  
 One Man To Another: A New Treatment Era: Better Outcomes for Prostate Cancer
After about 80 years of poor outcomes from both surgical and radiation treatment for prostate cancer, the first era of success began with the publication in 1982 of an anatomy and method of surgery (prostatectomy) by Dr. Walsh, and the publication in 1991 of a method for PSA screening by Dr. Catalona.
When Dr. Catalona selected the low PSA screening threshold value of 2.5ng/ml, he was not only detecting more cancers, but at that low PSA value the %Tumor was also sufficiently small so that resulting surgical treatment was likely to have much less recurrence.
In the new treatment era, the hope is that almost every patient who follows the new rules will be treatable with curative intent by using surgery and then supportive radiation when needed.
www.drcatalona.com /quest/Winter04/quest_winter04_7.asp   (1219 words)

  
 Common Ground News: “We are now at the threshold of a new era that carries hope for achieving peace” | The Tharwa ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Checkpoints are currently being moved from their present locations, and the Palestinian Authority is given more power and control to undertake its role in maintaining peace and putting an end to violence.
Pundak said that inside the Israeli military establishment, as well as inside the current Israeli government, there exist strong forces that would like to see this change that we alluded to, in spite of some reservations in the position of the Israeli intelligence and their perception of events.
The Center’s mission is to build an infrastructure of peace by and for the people of the Middle East that promotes socio economic development, while advancing cooperation and mutual understanding.
www.tharwaproject.com /node/333   (908 words)

  
 At the Threshold of an Era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As an architect, Biu is put in-charge of the architect design of the building.
Kan asks Lei not to harm Tim, in return Lei wants Kan to place an announcement ad in the newspaper claiming that the 'illegal construction' case was none of Lei's business.
Ping found out that Leung has an affair with her good friend Bo Ee, Ping is deeply hurt and decided to divorce Leung.
members.tripod.com /jennie0976/at_the_threshold_of_an_era.htm   (1859 words)

  
 At the Threshold of an Era
Gallen and Sunny are both on their school's committee for the restructuring of their old school.
He once covered the outside of their entire building with an advertisement.
An argument about their past erupts and Gallen walks in then saying he will not sell.
www.fortunecity.com /lavender/polanski/795/summaries/thresholdera.htm   (4174 words)

  
 Brazil on Threshold of New Era With Lula Victory - Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy
Perhaps as decisive as substance in the electoral homestretch is Lula’s telegenic edge: in contrast to the boring Serra, the ex-factory worker is perfect for the medium, down to the mischievous wink that establishes an intimate tie between him and the viewer.
Geraldo Fontes, an MST leader, claims Lula is favorable to an MST proposal for a short-term program in the countryside that has three elements: expropriation of all land that is now occupied, provision of people in the reformed areas with seeds, tools, and other basic needs, and food for the first three months.
Lula campaign adviser Prado, who is an economist, tells me that the current FTAA, as negotiated by the Cardoso government, is a “non-starter.” Its provisions on investment, patents and trademarks, and government procurement are seen as particularly damaging to the PT’s strategic economic program.
www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/develop/2002/1024lula.htm   (2629 words)

  
 ANNEX I: CRITICAL ISSUES FOR POOR PEOPLE IN THE INDIAN DAIRY SECTOR ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW ERA
The goal of this section is by no means to provide an evaluation of livestock industrialization and its implications for social-health-environment issues, and indeed, this method does not lend itself to such a policy exercise.
After an initial slow start during the 1960s, crossbreeding picked up very fast, and the successive rounds of livestock census clearly established the speed with which crossbreeding spread in different parts of the country.
It is useful to get an overview of the broad aggregate of this sector and understand the type of "informal sector" which competes with the organized sector (cooperatives and modern-style private factories) in the field of processing, procurement, and marketing of milk and other dairy products.
www.fao.org /WAIRDOCS/LEAD/X6115E/x6115e0b.htm   (8319 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Man from Minas -- Feb. 13, 1956 -- Page 2
One of the President's first official acts was to decree an end to the despised press censorship imposed by the interim administration last November.
An early riser, the President held his first Cabinet meeting at 7 a.m.
Admirers look upon him as a born leader with surpassing political skill, and an executive of great competence, with promise of becoming, measured by practical accomplishment, the greatest President Brazil has ever had.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,893381-2,00.html   (584 words)

  
 Bioinformatics Program at University of Oklahoma
The human genome project is one of the greatest achievements of scientific reductionism, whose completion opens a new era of synthetic biology.
Genome sequence data have grown exponentially over the past decade, and are still an unexplored wilderness where many great and small discoveries remain to be made.
Along with providing answers to these questions in basic science, the era of genomics will permit tremendous advances in medicine, as we learn the functions of each gene, and the problems created by their mutations.
www.ou.edu /cas/zoology/Bioinformatics   (435 words)

  
 The Yale Herald - April 4, 2003 - Bush pursues war on reproductive rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Yale Herald is an undergraduate publication at Yale University.
Bush appointed the founder of an anti-condom group to his President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and appointed Dr. David Hagar to the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee of the FDA.
The Herald is an undergraduate publication of Yale University.
www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=2001   (795 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Threshold - UK - Metal / Rock / Progressive - www.myspace.com/thresholdofficial
Formed in the late 1980s, Threshold combined their influnces of heavy metal and progressive rock to craft their own unique sound which was a far cry from the commercial sound of the time.
Threshold's original vocalist Damian Wilson featured on the first and third albums, taking a break in between while Glynn Morgan took over the role for the second album.
By the end of the decade Threshold were signed to Inside Out Music and had established drummer Johanne James and new vocalist Andrew "Mac" McDermott among their ranks.
www.myspace.com /thresholdofficial   (1376 words)

  
 Center for Cancer Research - Staff Pages
RNaseIII, an endonuclease, recognizes the stem structure and cleaves it, separating NUT from the N RNA.
The accumulation of adequate levels of Era is essential for cytokinesis to be completed and cell growth to continue.
We speculate that a threshold level of Era must accumulate before Era-GTPase is activated by a cellular signal to cause cell division and to allow cell growth to continue.
ccr.cancer.gov /Staff/staff.asp?profileid=5694   (608 words)

  
 At The Threshold Of An Era II - hkadb.net
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hkadb.net /info/At_The_Threshold_Of_An_Era_2   (113 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT Business News: Maruti on the threshold of an era of upgraded cars
India's leading car-maker Maruti Udyog Limited is on the threshold of a new era that is likely to see it launch technologically improved cars.
An aside: in contrast to MUL's whopping 85 per cent market-share, no other country has a car-maker with 50 per cent market-share.
A host of modified versions like a fuel-injection powered Maruti Esteem, a diesel-powered artificially aspirated Maruti Esteem and Maruti Gypsy and an effort to increase presence in the taxi segment are likely to keep Maruti in the news.
www.rediff.com /business/1999/jul/29maruti.htm   (627 words)

  
 Threshold Of New Era In Space Humans to establish extraterrestrial home
After a two-day flight launched yesterday from the steppes of Kazakstan, an American astronaut and his two Russian partners will nudge their Russian Soyuz spacecraft delicately up against the docking port of the huge International Space Station at 1:20 a.m.
The mission opens a new era in space exploration, Russian and American space agencies say, the first phase of 15 or more years of continuous habitation aboard the space station, with successive crews following for increasingly longer stays.
The space station may reflect a new era of international collaboration in space exploration, but Russian and American cultures are different, and even their space ventures can operate very differently.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/Humans-Establish-Extraterrestrial-Home.htm   (1729 words)

  
 Agni Yoga Talks - THE NEW ERA in AGNI YOGA
But the true era of Satya Yuga on our planet can begin only after the planet is purified of its unfit material and new continents are formed.
We are now at the very entrance of a New Era, a New Race, and therefore our time may be compared with the times of Atlantis, the existence of which becomes more and more evident to our science.
Certainly, His Advent must not be understood as an appearance in the flesh, amidst earthly conditions and Earth-dwellers.
www.agniyoga.org /ay_talks/ay_talks_f2006_newEraInAY.html   (1682 words)

  
 TVB: At the Threshold of an Era II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
n contrast to the first half of "At the Threshold of an Era", the second half started well and ended in a catastrophe.
"At the Threshold of an Era I" was a good source of entertainment for the gray solemn nights of winter.
An invitation of a guest host acted in the most inappropriate way by throwing himself onto the chair and insulting the contestants by their professions, their looks and everything else he could think in that brainwashed mind of his.
www.spcnet.tv /tvb_threshold2.shtml   (1406 words)

  
 ERA New Thresholds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
If you're on the threshold of a new lifestyle, and considering selling your home, you'll get the kind of assistance you need from the ERA® real estate family.
Your ERA Colonial Real Estate professional is committed to meeting the unique needs of mature home sellers.
ERA® New Thresholds provides special services and expertise to help you make successful real estate and home financing decisions.
www.newthresholdstexas.com /index.htm   (93 words)

  
 3rd Alberta Workshop on Software Testing
Many commentators agree that we are on the threshold of a new era of computing characterized not by the expansion of desktop or mainframe systems but by a new breed of embedded (and invisible) product entering the marketplace.
Third era computing products will contain a processor, rather than “a computer”, and include everything from wearable phones, guides for the blind using intelligent GPS, drive-by-wire automobiles, to wireless, remote sensing of patient life signs.
To register, send an email to Adam Geras (ageras@ucalgary.ca) and provide your name, contact email address, company affiliation and to whom the invoice should be sent.
www.ucalgary.ca /~ageras/wshop/anns/s2005/wann.htm   (661 words)

  
 ERA Statewide Real Estate in Cranford New Jersey
As a further testament to her commitment to serve, Kim earned the Seniors Real Estate Specialist ® (“SRES”) designation and continues to demonstrate that she has the knowledge, experience and expertise to provide superior service to those in the Senior Market.
If you are on the threshold of a new lifestyle, and considering buying or selling a home, our unprecedented “Commitment To Service” contract will guarantee that you receive the kind of assistance you require from the Med Pro Team of ERA Real Estate professionals.
Whether you need a guaranteed sale and firm closing date so that you can smoothly transition into a new life; or you’re looking to move into a new community or Assisted Living residence we can support you every step of the way in making your goals reality.
www.eraamericandream.com /content/AssistedLiving.asp   (455 words)

  
 thresholds - MIT Department of Architecture's critical journal of Architecture, Art and Media Culture
The ponderous question of ephemera is that it is at once that which is fleeting and, by a simple shift of the frame, that which remains.
The objects, moments and conditions by which we define and engage our age is constructed by the very things, by which it will become obsolete.
In an era in which time and speed are so complicit in the constitution of our cultural awareness, where and how do we begin to locate the foundational registers by which to measure their effect?
architecture.mit.edu /thresholds   (141 words)

  
 TIME.com: El Salvador Up Against Hard Realities -- Dec. 1, 1986 -- Page 1
Two years ago El Salvador seemed to be at the threshold of an era of peace and progress.
Today, however, an end to both the simmering war and the deepening economic crisis seems a distant possibility.
With an average per capita income of $535, El Salvador now faces as much as 50% unemployment, up to 40% inflation and a flight of capital as wary businessmen invest overseas.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,962966-1,00.html   (764 words)

  
 Sen. Leahy Requests GAO Report on FOIA
In addition, as part of your review, please assess the impact of the Attorney General's new statement of Administration policy, issued on Oct. 12, 2002, on implementation of the FOIA that superseded former Attorney General Reno's policy, in effect since 1993.
Please provide an analysis of how guidance from the Department of Justice on how federal agencies should implement the new policy has changed and whether there has been any increase in the withholding of records and a concomitant increase in reliance on the courts to resolve FOIA disputes.
With respect to fee waivers for media requests, I am concerned that the Attorney General's new, more restrictive policy on responding to FOIA requests is also affecting the handling of fees for processing requests from representatives of the news media, educational or noncommercial scientific institutions.
www.fas.org /sgp/congress/2002/leahy-gao.html   (615 words)

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