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MASTERWORKS OF MING AND QING PAINTING FROM THE FORBIDDEN CITY, Cleveland Museum of Art. The show's 76 treasures, lent by the Palace Museum in Beijing, consist mostly of painted scrolls from China's last two imperial dynasties (1368-1644 and 1644-1911). Through...
...type of atom most common in fusion reactions is a form of hydrogen called deuterium. Although most hydrogen nuclei consist of just a positively charged proton, deuterium also contains an uncharged particle called a neutron...
...even begin such a serious approach to total fitness, we have to shake many of the often-empty symbols of the fitness craze, as well as a lot of our traditional dietary habits. Statistics reveal that most American diets consist of nearly 30 to 40 percent fat, and are loaded with high cholesterol foods...
...laboriously charting human DNA. Of the estimated 100,000-odd genes that populate the genome, just 4,550 have been identified. And only 1,500 of those have been roughly located on the various chromosomes. The message of the genes has been equally difficult to come by. Most genes consist of between 10,000 and 150,000 code letters, and only a few genes have been completely deciphered. Long segments of the genome, like the vast uncharted regions of early maps, remain terra incognita...
...hostages are repeatedly threatened with death. Their meals consist of Arabic bread, foul-tasting cheese and tea. Buckley's treatment reveals the full cruelty of the kidnapers. He catches a bad cold that develops into pneumonia, but the guards show him no mercy. "Mr. Buckley is dying," Father Jenco pleads one day. "He is sick. He has dry heaves. Give us liquids...