Now, the hard sell. Vitajex, Vitajex.

Her nightgown is made of coarse linen.

You hurt my arm, tough guy!

And rough and tumble play is a great learning medium for all of us.

Fears of a hard landing are overblown.

I've never seen such a ragged line. Just come out and look at yourselves.

And, in addition to the coarse scale geometry, they also used all of that detail to create a set of what are called displacement maps that animate as well.

Well, I can't say that I enjoyed it, but I've gone through rougher hazing in college and at sea.

Over the last 28 years, this tough, grinding, dirty work has been done by literally thousands of people around Australia and, more recently, overseas, and their work has proven that focused design can improve even the poorest living environments.

And, in addition to the coarse scale geometry, they also used all of that detail to create a set of what are called displacement maps that animate as well.

Now, the same mouse is given 80 parts per million hydrogen sulfide in this solid graph, and look what happens to its temperature.

Tibetans, Turks, who wore shoes made of felt or thick wool, with toes and heels reinforced with leather to be able to sustain these journeys.

The argument that tough love was necessary in southern Europe, because nothing there would ever have changed otherwise, has been settled.

Much of the public likes his raw language and harsh criticism of the rest of the right, notably of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, but above all of Chirac.

At best, Europeans could be America s cleaning ladies, to use the indelicate analogy coined at the time by some neo conservative thinkers during George W. Bush s first term in office.

No sooner had Fearenside's dog caught sight of him, however, than it began to bristle and growl savagely, and when he rushed down the steps it gave an undecided hop, and then sprang straight at his hand.

As Russia s conflict with Ukraine in early January over gas prices demonstrated, when Russia plays rough, the West grows apprehensive and suspicious rather than more amenable.

But that theory meshed with suspicious ease with the perceived domestic political need for the president to appear tough to avoid appearing less of a hawk than your more respectable opponents, as Bundy later put it.

Domestically the one and only issue in most countries remains the same how to provide a sustainable basis for economic growth in the harsh climate of the global marketplace while at the same time maintaining solidarity and a sense of fairness throughout society.

John McCain managed to defeat his more conventional Republican rivals by seeming to be totally different from them a maverick who says what he damned well wants, a tough guy with the knowing wink of the old ladies man.

Preschool kids, for example, should be allowed to dive, hit, whistle, scream, be chaotic, and develop through that a lot of emotional regulation and a lot of the other social byproducts cognitive, emotional and physical that come as a part of rough and tumble play.

All negotiations between debtors and creditors involve bluff and bluster to some extent. But Greece's maverick finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, has taken his case boldly to the media and the public in a way that leaves little doubt as to his willingness to play hard ball.

That toughly worded statement was seen as a veiled but unmistakable warning that the military was prepared to intervene if Gul s election as president resulted in an effort by the Erdogan government to push its Islamic agenda or take measures that threatened the secular nature of the Turkish political order.

One way to interpret China s elevated rhetoric and its tough response to joint US South Korean military maneuvers is as another indication that Chinese leaders have grown supremely self confident and are eager to throw their weight around.

With a war exhausted US having run out of patience, outside forces are in no position to prevent Afghanistan s partition along Iraqi (or even post Yugoslav) lines, with the bloodiest battles expected to rage over control of ethnically mixed strategic areas, including Kabul.