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The amount of water flowing through United States streams has (i)_____ during this century, although without giving rise to more frequent floods, according to a new study by the United States Geological Survey. The country appears to be getting (ii)_____ even as its stream flow becomes less (iii)_____.
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When it comes to arriving at brilliant ideas, filtering out distractions might well be _____: if a person's mind is wandering, that person tends to outperform peers in a range of tasks in which flashes of insight are important.
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Matsui is an extremely _____ political tactician, as she generally will withhold her support for a political faction or a policy until she is confident it will prevail.
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There is ample evidence that men and women think, express themselves, and even experience emotions differently, but in the area of sensory perception, psychologists are hard-pressed to identify major _____.
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Robbins` accomplishment is not _____ one: her book makes the topic accessible to a general audience while still providing the sort of analysis that scholars demand.
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Unable to escape their own literary tradition, literary critics either become the ______ of that tradition or, on the contrary, use their knowledge of it to reinterpret writers and trends from new perspectives.
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Not only was Jarry ______ the pandemonium his play sparked, he actually worked to foment the conflict, organizing a posse to boo if the rest of the audience applauded and cheer if the other attendees booed.
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Boreal forest is at the southern boundary of the moss-dominated tundra, which remains characteristically treeless because its spongy surface retains water that cannot drain away through the underlying permafrost. But as temperatures rise the permafrost recedes, (i)______ the (ii)______ of forest.
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As late as the 1990s, Merry Wiesner Hanks argued that developments during the Reformation and the Enlightenment had (i)______ effects on the participation of women in the filed of medicine. She claimed that the (ii)______ Reformation and Enlightenment women left female health`s practitioners restricted to assisting in an unpaid and unrecognized capacity.
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There is (i)______ evidence that the giant African land snail a. fulica is a serious threat to the spread of human disease. Giant snails do carry rat lungworm—infection by which is a common cause of meningitis—but so do many other snail species. Moreover, if the threat posed by a. fulica were (ii)______, one would expect to see an increase in disease rates (iii)______ a rise in the spread of snails. However, in places like New Caledonia, explosions in giant snail populations have coincided with a fall in the number of meningitis cases.
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There is no sense trying to rehabilitate the reputation of the mosquito; nobody loves such a creature. But it's (i)______ to (ii)______ all 2,600 described species of mosquito when it's just 80 or so—3 percent that drink human blood. Among those 2,520 relatively (iii)______ kinds of mosquitoes, there's even one we'd like to see in greater numbers: Taxorhynchites, the mosquito that eats other mosquitoes.
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We should be more ______ than we often are when making claims about antiquity—for example, the common statement, “The ancient Athenians invented democracy,” is simply not true when put like that.
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The author advocates a diminished role for philosophy, aiming to show that many of the questions traditionally debated among philosophers can be ______ the realm of scientific inquiry.
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With regard to verity, neutrality, and transparency, nothing about the Internet makes it any different than Gutenberg`s printing press, which could serve______just as well as truth.
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As astronomers do not yet have a good understanding of the fundamental nature of dark matter, it should not be a surprise that astronomy students' ideas about dark matter are, at best, ______.
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Behavior dubbed reprehensible by the residents of the region is considered conventional, even ______ by those of the neighboring region; fortunately, people traveling between the two are resigned to this disparity.
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Though acquaintances are first overwhelmed by his ______, they soon appreciate that, contrary to appearances, he is not without self-interest.
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Early in the development of ice age theories, physicists identified the processing( slow gyration) and wobbling of Earth`s spin axis as the likely drivers of the ice ages, but geologists (i)______, and even the painstaking work done in the 1920s and 1930s by Mihution Mplankovitch failed to (ii)______ of many of the day`s geological experts.
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As a longtime fan of the fashion photography Web site, I wasn`t sure if I wanted to see its images presented in a book, with all of the (i)______ that implies. What I`ve always enjoyed about the photos is their (ii)______: they are disposable snapshots of what`s going on in the world of style right now.
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This book cannot be evaluated properly without examining the author's choice of format, which is the (i)______ of the format of standard academic works; here the photographs take center stage, with the text playing only a supporting role. This layout poses many dangers for the serious historian, not the least of which being the (ii)______ reception that academics—motivated partly by (iii)______ but also by genuine concern over scholarly standards—generally reserve for books apparently aimed at the popular market.
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