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Tweedy and his colleagues found that Dicty lived up to its reputation, rapidly solving a complex maze in an hour that could take the tortoiselike pancreatic cancer cells several days.

It occurs — this will not come as a surprise to anyone on the way to Kennedy whose anxiety level is inversely proportional to the tortoiselike speed of his or her taxi — because they are in a position to be hit.

The most excitement occurs when a vehicle like the white van crosses too closely, or when a motorist approaches from the rear and, impatient with the bus’s tortoiselike pace, swerves around it.

The city’s criminal justice system is notorious for its tortoiselike pace, but Mr. Vega’s case is an extreme example of how much worse the problem is in the Bronx.

He tends to flaunt his wares like a store clerk, fawning over the clothes, chairs and cars, and his usual rabbity pace slows to a tortoiselike crawl whenever the actors deliver a lot of words, which gratefully isn’t often.