But the pace, so far, is significantly slower than in the prescandal days of 2005, when Congress financed more than 15,000 pet projects, by some estimates, totaling more than $30 billion.

I was twenty when I first caught the Jesus bug. It took another two years before I even considered visiting a church.

Pipfruits differ from other plant models used to study bud dormancy, such as peach and poplar, at the physiological level because the most important environmental trigger for dormancy induction is low-temperature exposure (Heide and Prestrud 2005), instead of photoperiodic changes.

Georges Charensol's Panorama du cinema, originally published in 1927, . . . was the bible of devotees of the seventh art.