This parametric image is interpreted by clinicians based on predominant colorization of the tumor : red indicates a suspicion of malignancy ( risk of cancer ), green or yellow a high probability of benignity.
22.
She turns to the same therapist / Benignity agent who had arranged for Yrilan's death, seeking safe transportation away from the Familias; for her mistakes, the therapist gasses Lorenza to death.
23.
Unfortunately, this display of martial expertise is insufficient to intimidate the Benignity observer, who reports back that Xavier has only minimal defenses; this report initiates the invasion, as Xavier is strategically situated.
24.
The Fleet, too, is restless and ill at ease; lurking and awaiting their chance is the Benignity of the Compassionate Hand ( the " Black Scratch " ), which has begun preparing an invasion.
25.
Heris's desperate pleas for assistance against the coming strike to the local Fleet headquarters succeeds only in roping in a cruiser and two patrol boasts-all commanded by traitors in the pay of the Benignity.
26.
His images of violence and sublimity rendered in a technique of seamless, lacquered precision were just the thing for a time when a veneer of faith in religion, social perfectibility and the benignity of science was starting to buckle and crack.
27.
Towards the end of the allotted month, the smugglers balked in " Hunting Party " attack the two when Sirkin refuses to become their agent on the " Sweet Delight ", and are revealed to be Benignity agents.
28.
Crises abound : a young and foolish Family member disappears on the fractious and restless world of Patchcock; there are concerns that the drug supply for curing aging is being adulterated by the Benignity; and other concerns that Brun is somehow in danger.
29.
A third possible event referenced by the title is the plot by the Benignity of the Compassionate Hand to undermine the expansionist capabilities of Fleet by arranging for the rejuvenation drugs being used on the master chiefs to be contaminated; " Project Retainer ".
30.
It redefines the extraordinary benignity of this earth _ the storm's eye in which we nearly always live _ even as it makes the blue skies that will surely follow seem tentative, a veil over a planet whose extremes we barely know at all.
