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Genre – and the almost inifite branches of sub and sub-sub genres which come from the most common ones, is definitely I have been mindful of when considering different publishing projects for the future.
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Fuller Torrey in his 2008 research book called The Insanity Defense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens we are informed that 4,000,000 Americans are believed to have severe psychiatric disorders with a subset of 400,000 homeless and untreated not complying with their needed medications and another sub-sub set of 40,000 considered the most dangerous, not being treated or taking meds and demonstrating very violent behavior.
Noel Irwin Hentschel: Jared Loughner Attack on Gabrielle Giffords: America's Mental Health Breakdown Noel Irwin Hentschel 2011
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However, the film with its intricate dreams and sub-dreams and sub-sub dreams, dreams within dreams within dreams that have rules of their own, are so complicated that in attempting to follow the cutting back and forth to characters simultaneously engaged in the different states of dreams, it made one long for the seemingly simplistic flash sideways of the last season of ABC's Lost, which seems like a child's fairy tale in comparison.
Michael Russnow: Inception's Getting a Lot of Buzz: But as a Conception Doesn't Stand the Test 2010
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I swear, the glut of vampire books and films has made me swear off the entire sub-sub genre.
“Blood Oath” by Christopher Farnsworth (Reviewed by Robert Thompson) Robert 2010
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You know, the fields have become so specialized – so non-overlapping – that often those in one sub-sub specialty don't know much about what's real and current in other sub-sub specialties.
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Those who demand pre-connected dots have no talent or imagination, or know nothing about the issues in the sub-sub fields that need rectifying.
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However, the film with its intricate dreams and sub-dreams and sub-sub dreams, dreams within dreams within dreams that have rules of their own, are so complicated that in attempting to follow the cutting back and forth to characters simultaneously engaged in the different states of dreams, it made one long for the seemingly simplistic flash sideways of the last season of ABC's Lost, which seems like a child's fairy tale in comparison.
Michael Russnow: Inception 's Getting a Lot of Buzz: But as a Conception Doesn't Stand the Test 2010
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Which of course really doesn't mean much on the sub-sub atomic level of things, since it doesn't work like a lottery.
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Zelikow, with the knowledge of Commission members, claims author Philip Shenon in "The Commission," had written an outline of the commission's report, complete with chapter headings, subheadings, and sub-sub headings, before any research had begun, thus calling into question the objectivity of the commission's investigation.
Author Griffin: Obama, special prosecutor best hope for new 9-11 probe 2009
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But what is undeniably true is that the Islamic jihad is an umbrella movement comprising not just one or two but many actors, all with their own sub and sub-sub agendas, all fighting and allying and fighting with each other again, but all with the same ultimate objective: to conquer the non-Islamic or not-Islamic-enough world.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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