Word: consisting
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Others, including some at the hearing, had recommended that because the experiments involved complex scientific questions, the committee should consist of knowledgeable scientists, biologists and geneticists...
...illusion of standing on the Martian plain became even more vivid when scientists produced a color picture that confirmed the appropriateness of Mars' longtime sobriquet of Red Planet. The soil seemed to consist of a fine-grained reddish material interspersed with small blue-black or blue-green patches. Many of the rocks were also coated with a reddish stain, strongly suggesting the presence of iron that had rusted in the presence of atmospheric or waterbound oxygen. Other rocks, blue-green and opalescent, reminded some scientists of copper ore. After correcting the color values on the photograph, scientists decided that...
...John Hunter, who became Surgeon Extraordinary to King George III last January, dissected male and female rays to analyze "the peculiar organs by which that animal produces so extraordinary an effect." The two organs, on either side of the cranium and gills, are about 5 inches long and consist of more than 400 tiny vertical columns of fluid. Three large nerves connect the organs to the brain. Although Hunter is not sure how the shocks are created, he asserts that "the will of the animal does absolutely control the electric powers of its body...
POSTSCRIPT: In case any of your readers have not seen Affirmative Racism in action, I enclose this quote from the 1975-76 edition of the booklet entitled "Medical School Admissions Requirements," page 302 (on the University of Washington School of Medicine): "Future classes are expected to consist only of Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming residents as well as American Indians, black Americans, and Chicano students regardless of residence...
...student body's concerns. No reference was made to the opinions of the students concerning the ministry. As Vatican II so strongly emphasized, the role of the laity is vital to the life of the Church. We, as students, have seen our role as committed Christians to consist of active participation in the campus ministry. In fact, it is because our ministerial activities in the undergraduate organization have been so closely intermeshed with the activities of the chaplains that we find the article so offensive. A criticism of the chaplains' ministry must, by connection, criticize our attempts as lay ministers...