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The membership of the two clubs being______,no one had a member's perspective on both.
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The overall message of this book on neuroscience is (i) _______: the brain is quite (ii) _______,and therefore damaged brains can be healed, aging brains can be rejuvenated, and even ordinarily healthy brains can be made faster and better.
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When in 1980 the father and son pair of Louis and Walter Alvarez and their colleagues linked the end Cretaceoure extinction to a catastrophic extraterrestrial impact, they were met with skepticism by most paleontologists, which was(i)______given that geological training since the mid-1800s had emphasized the primacy of (ii)_______ .
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The novel`s heroine shows a remarkable (i) ______ to worship at the altar of youth; in her world, youth is(ii) ______ , while age, by contrast, confers competence and wisdom.
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The potential (i)______ exploiting mineral resources in the area combined with (ii) ______ participation among local people in conservation efforts may lead to a(iii) ______ human appreciation for the landscape and eventually contribute to disadvantageous effects for conservation.
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Those who initially recorded American Indian oral stories often ______ them when they wrote them down; the subsequent publishers of American Indian stories, therefore, are not the first to affect the meaning of the text.
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______ the idea that attention is a limited resource, scientists have repeatedly observed that drivers using mobile phones are slower to react and more apt to miss important details than are drivers focused solely on road.
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Meteorology is one of the few fields of applied science that demands prediction; since prediction involves considerable uncertainty and uncertainty is _____ scientists, meteorology will continue to exist in a fraught intellectual space.
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The concept of the Hellenistic period in ancient history has proved useful but also ______, with scholars disagreeing on the dates when the period began and ended.
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In the nineteenth century, geology became so respected among middle-class Britons that the science came to be seen as ______ , a yardstick by which other disciplines measured their scientific rigor and imaginative power.
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The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers appeared _____ .
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Seemingly to compensate for the (i)_____nature of her subject, in her review the theater critic (ii) _____ a casual chatty style.
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Defying expectation, the electorate seems poised to (i)_____a number of political tenets so(ii) ______ that they are often paraded as fact.
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Some critics claim that because medical journals receive (i)_____selection of findings from clinical trials--mainly those trials that show (ii) ______ results for the drugs being tested--readers of those journals believe that some medications are more(iii)_____ than they really are, even when those medications are little more than placebos.
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The tools of science are so specialized that we accept them as a kind of ______machinery for producing knowledge: we know that they work, but cannot explain why.
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If satellite images predicting outbreaks of Rift Valley fever in the Horn of Africa were to lead to vaccination campaigns five months in advance, monitoring of such images could potentially ______ epidemics in both livestock and people.
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The rebellion was ______one, driven less by ardor than by reason and calculation.
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To say that John Adams was forthright was to be_____ ; friends as well as enemies were more likely to characterize his stark honesty and direct manner as blunt and awkward.
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Enlarged sensory organs in cave-dwelling organisms are not necessarily the rule: the phreatic Texas blind catfish has actually developed ________ barbels, whisker-like sensory organs near the mouth that are a prominent feature of other catfish species.
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The headmaster believed that the school's strict code of conduct was very useful for making teenagers give up their _______ ways, turning them into minders of tradition and discipline.
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