Word: chosen
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...physicists reached their conclusion as the result of an experiment conducted in Greenland last summer. They lowered a supersensitive gravity meter into a mile-deep hole bored in glacial ice -- chosen because its density is more uniform than that of rock -- and monitored the gravitational pull as the meter descended. What occurred was startling: the expected increase in gravitational force predicted by Newton was there, but it got stronger faster than expected. Either something was enhancing the force of gravity or the researchers had come upon a heretofore unknown, far more complex working of gravity itself. Or, just possibly, they...
Dean of the Divinity School Ronald F. Thiemann said that Levenson was chosen to fill the List chair because his work involving Jewish and Christian thought is among the most respected in the world...
...Being chosen often reflects God's preference of people but can provoke hostility in the non-chosen, and that has explicit theological implications," said Levenson...
Withers described a painstaking search process,in which many of the original candidates droppedout of the race because they did not take theappointment seriously. Three candidates werefinally chosen to visit the campus in early Mayand spend a day meeting with alumni, faculty,administrators and staff...
Indeed, his son Yusef spoke to the latter aspect, when in his introduction to his father's address at the Democratic National Convention he said that too many members of his generation have chosen to spell "relief D-R-U-G-S rather than...