This kind of hair loss is known as pattern baldness.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

This is a meditation on both the joy and the loss of literary substitution for the real or for the truth, the substitution of abstract pattern for something like comprehensible meaning.

对为了现实或是真理,和有着某些可理解含义的抽象模式，的文学替代的思考,在这里她有些被这宝石般的线索吸引住了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"We now need to know more about how early life conditions can influence the pattern of telomere loss and the relative importance of inherited and environmental factors, " she said.

BBC: Glasgow scientists say telomeres indicate life length

The study - by the investigative arm of Congress - is intended to help understand the pattern of financial loss in New York so as to try to focus economic reconstruction efforts.

BBC: New York seeks tax-free boost

Whatever the models reveal about the pattern, impacts and nature of the loss of rainfall, it is hard to imagine that it will not be bad news of some sort.

ECONOMIST: Geoengineering