Word: explanationsent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The theory of plate tectonics radically transformed the field of geology by offering new explanations for earthquakes and volcanoes, the development of similar species on different continents and the dynamic nature of the earth's crust.
He sounded as if he were fresh from Europe, but his highly complicated explanations of international relations obscured his meaning at least as much as his broken English.
The real mystery, scientists say, is not that the positrons were created. It's that they were lobbed so many thousands of light-years above the galactic plane, like water droplets scattered by a giant geyser. Scientists offered several competing explanations last week. Rice University astrophysicist Edison Liang thinks black...
Clayton has posted a sign near her house: DEATH PENALTY. The suspects' friends tore it down, but she promptly replaced it. "I told them this is my freedom of speech. You're allowed to be angry, I'm allowed to be angry, we're all allowed to be angry." And...
I cannot make heads or tails of such explanations. All of them seem calculated at some political end or another, without offering much in the way of explanatory power. I think of this grasping at straws as some ploy to understand the world, to suggest that the elimination of broken...