However, nuclear events in meiotic cells are readily distinguishable from those in mitotic cells, and the developmental program of archesporial cells and meiocytes is independent of successive somatic cell development, at least for the progression into prophase I.

It's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet.

The moas were bigger than modern ostriches, so the fact that Haast's eagle was able to kill them (hitting them from the side and taking them down that way) is even more impressive.

{{quote-book |en |year=1995 |author={{w|Richard Rhodes}} |title={{w|Dark_Sun_(disambiguation)#Books|Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb}} |chapter=20 |passage=The Army Chief of Staff [{{w|Omar Bradley}}] lamented the country's great vulnerability. All we have right now, [David E.] {{w|David E. Lilienthal|Lilenthal}} paraphrases Bradley, parenthetically filling in the blanks he had left in his diary for the sake of security, but all, is (our A-bomb stockpile). Without that we are helpless to aid our friends and must, if they are overrun, try to hold our foes off from home base; never again able to normandize (invade Europe).}}