Word: consisting
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...miles) is nearly 6,000 miles greater than the spread between its poles. The data returned by the spacecraft also support the long-held theory that Jupiter is unique among planets: a great ball of whirling gases and liquids with no solid surface. Its outermost 600 miles consist of an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium gases laced with clouds composed of crystals of ammonia, ammonia hydrosulfide and water ice. The rest of the planet is mostly a seething cauldron of liquid hydrogen, except perhaps for a small, rocky, possibly iron-bearing core. Scientists suspect that Jupiter's extreme interior...
...intended mainly for reading and writing. But since the library turned out to be weak in those areas I wanted to work--mainly agriculture and climate--I soon realized that whatever of value I could do here that could not be done as well out in the hinterlands would consist largely of auditing lectures, and discussing them with the lecturers. In this way I gathered a great deal of information, and many impressions of how a Harvard education today compares with one acquired two decades ago when I was an undergraduate here, and with the educations offered at the several...
...about the lack of stimulating classes at the institute. Most of the 300 students* from 40 countries had considerable facility in Chinese before they arrived. One Canadian, for example, is a specialist in Tang poetry; others were in postgraduate studies. Thus they feel that the study materials, which frequently consist of official tracts and xenophobic diatribes from the Chinese press, are an insult to their intelligence...
Under the new plan, the 12.2-acre complex across from Eliot House will consist of a triangular-shaped museum and library overlooking the Charles River, a six-story Harvard political science center, and a three-acre park separating the two structures...
...invitational, Radcliffe's lineup will consist of the team of Thal-Muscatine at number-one doubles, and Magraw-Wood at number...