Think about going to a party with a partner.

With their last dying breath, they were active. But this time next year they will be gone.

With improved analytical methods, we show that the abundance distribution and total diversity of soil-borne bacteria can be deciphered.

In previous analyses, researchers did not account for differences in species abundance. As a result, they dramatically undercounted.

[The researchers actually reanalyzed old data, using more sophisticated mathematics that took into account that there might be a lot of some species and very little of others.] In previous analyses, researchers did not account for differences in species abundance, ... As a result, they dramatically undercounted.

I was now alone with a strange people, in a strange land. Our conversation so far as we had any was carried on by signs.

Poor disclosure laws in nearly half the states, including Utah, make it difficult to get a true picture of all [telecom] industry spending. But this survey still provides a pretty good snapshot of what is taking place.

In the past, we could take comfort in knowing that (AT&T and the Bells) were beating each other bloody. That goes away.