Herbert claims we think in extremes when it comes to the purity of our food.
For both his friends and his foes, the main point is that he still indulges in extremes worthy of a street-fighter: he has a powerful ego, and is a former marathon runner who has lost (and regained) considerable amounts of weight.
Flags are often formed in reaction to extremes in sentiment.
Despite a pretty clear history of warming over the last century, it is even hard to establish any trend in high temperature extremes (in large part because much of the warming has been in warmer night-time lows rather than in daytime highs).
Living in the extremes, under false beliefs and greed-based decision-making is rarely a successful methodology for living a satisfying money life.
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The possible outcomes of a win by the plaintiffs in the O'Bannon case have been cast in doomsday extremes: If the NCAA loses, some say, the governing body will be immolated as athletes turn into cash-addled mercenaries and top-level conferences are bombed into the stone ages.
In between the extremes, when sentiment is moving in a neutral range, it is meaningless.
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"As moderates in the gas industry and in the environmental community work together more in coming years to improve drilling practices, I think you will see the extremes in both camps become increasingly marginal and isolated, and I think that's a good thing, " environmentalist Michael Shellenberger wrote in an email.
But America thrives on a healthy respect for ambition, even in its raw extremes.
The strong cold front causing the severe weather brought huge extremes in temperature readings.
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Customers' frugality has reached extremes in the recession, the 40-year-old Mr. Soltani says.
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Between the two extremes in women's status, we have a much less dramatic -- but still crucial -- struggle.
During spring and fall, temperature extremes in the Atacama are mitigated, and the weather in Patagonia is relatively predictable.
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You can avoid this market-timing nightmare by observing extremes in the percentage of stocks that are undervalued according to ValuEngine.
Investors seeking upside from the recent extremes in weather and climate over the past several years need look no further than here.
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Market extremes in Comex gold, Nymex crude oil, the euro versus the dollar, and the major equity averages demonstrates this reversal-oriented trading.
The extremes in the mobile app market are only growing more pronounced.
Yes, investor sentiment is a contrary indicator when it reaches extremes in one direction or the other, the market usually moving contrary to what the majority expects.
But, while he has three times been on the end of defeats by Michael Maguire's Wigan, Morgan has seen both extremes in games with Mick Potter's Saints.
But maybe there would be a reduced danger of extremes in the credit cycle, because there should be less illusion about where the risks of lending actually reside and therefore better pricing of credit.
Optimists will point out that the Republicans, no less than the Democrats, tend to flirt with extremes in the primaries, then select an electable moderate (with Mr Romney being the likely winner this time).
The parties have dug in at the extremes.
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They are certified to MIL-STD 810G for extremes in temperature, vibration, shock and four-foot drops and have an IP65 rating for ingress protection, which means they are fully protected against dust and can withstand low pressure jets of water from all directions.
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The first filter that is applied to the height map is a simple Gaussian blur, which the GPU handles with ease, but which -- if left to its own devices -- would simply smooth out all the dramatic extremes in the height map and leave us with a bunch of bland rolling hills.
The volatility level of the market nearly reached the extremes experienced in the Great Depression.
It is only in between these two extremes that black truffles' character fully reveals itself.
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But the problem is, both of these extremes are in direct conflict with how our brains work.
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According to the newspaper's Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan, the final answer rests where it often does: in between the two extremes.
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The resort has everything in between these two extremes, from Italian to American brasserie to the clubhouse grill for club sandwiches.
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