Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoped 50 percent [of participants] would be women of color," says Newell Flather, a spokesman for the foundation. Of 20 students in last year's first Discovery class, eight were members of minority groups...
John M. Price, the University's industrial hygienist, said students have no particular reason to worry about lead poisoning. He said water discoloration "is independent of lead--that would just be some rust." University officials have also said harmless levels of manganese dioxide in the water contribute to the color...
...least exciting of colors is the least exciting of Ivy League football teams. The 1988 Brown football team has played like the color it represents--drab and uninspiring...
...myriad dots that form atmospheric drifts of color in a recent Papunya school painting like Five Dreamings, 1984, by Michael Nelson Jakamarra and his wife Marjorie Napaljarri, may fill the space with an "all-overness" as complete as any painting by Jackson Pollock. But they are specific symbols for terrain, vegetation, movement, sites and animals, of which the most obvious is a big reddish snake. Concentric circles mark campsites or rock holes, straight lines the routes between them, wavy ones rain or watercourses, and so on. Even the toa carvings collected from tribesmen around Lake Eyre in the early 1900s...
...beliefs about the structure of the atom. Just as in The Double Helix, another popular scientific work about an abstract theory, the scientist's own life takes on great importance. Interactions goes beyond simply imparting Glashow's knowledge of elementary particle physics (the realm of quarks, strangeness, charm and color)in an effort to present what he terms a "scientific autobiography...