Word: proving
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Quincy Jones has been chosen to give the 1997 Class Day oration, and we are more than pleased. Jones' background provides him with plenty of ammunition to present the graduating class with an inspiring message, and we trust that his speech will prove both entertaining and enlightening...
However, Ware and students add that relevant course work for each department can prove to be the extra-needed edge for admission and can help the transition to the graduate level work...
Jupiter's Io and Neptune's Triton could also prove surprising. Though Io appears largely dehydrated, planetologists don't rule out the possibility of subsurface water, particularly since they think that ordinary steam might provide some of the propulsive muscle behind the moon's volcanoes. Triton presents a greater organic hurdle. At -391[degrees]F, the moon is the coldest known object in the solar system. Nevertheless, it appears heavy with subsurface ice, which seems to have got warm enough, in the past at least, to flow over the landscape in a lava-like slurry. More tantalizing, dark streaks near...
...everyone assumed I did have an agenda, although they couldn't agree on what it was. To some, I was out to pathologize, perhaps to eliminate homosexuality. "Another example of medical homophobia!" declared one gay academic on prime time television. To others, I was out to justify homosexuality--to prove that we are "born that way" and therefore not to blame for our sexual urges or our sexual behavior...
...cold weather might prove a factor this weekend. "We were fighting the weather as much as the teams last week," Keck said...