Word: rising
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...Graduate School of Design), Carey Cage's eclectic design bridged the styles of architects ranging from H. H. Richardson to Frank Lloyd Wright. As the first steel-frame building on the campus, it stood as a link between the University's 19th-century development and its 20th-century rise to prominence...
...CONFIDENCE PROVOKES GRIM smiles from those who have been tracking the field. Giving USA, a publication of the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, registered a 3.7% rise in all charitable giving in 1994 over 1993, but the figure includes contributions to cultural institutions and other nonpoverty-related causes. Giving for "human services," the category most closely associated with poverty work, dropped 6%. A poll by Independent Sector found that voluntarism, which also saw a boomlet in the late '80s, declined 5% in 1993 from 1991. In the same poll, 73% of respondents worried about having enough money...
...seaweed that generated food through photosynthesis. Charniodiscus, a frond with a disklike base, he classifies as a colonial cnidarian, the phylum that includes jellyfish, sea anemones and sea pens. And Dickinsonia, which appears to have a clearly segmented body, Runnegar tentatively places in an ancestral group that later gave rise to roundworms and arthropods. The Cambrian explosion did not erupt out of the blue, argues Runnegar. "It's the continuation of a process that began long before...
...oxygen to rise, then, the planet's burden of decaying organic matter had to decline. And around 600 million years ago, that appears to be what happened. The change is reflected in the chemical composition of rocks like limestone, which incorporate two isotopes of carbon in proportion to their abundance in seawater - carbon 12, which is preferentially taken up by algae during photosynthesis, and carbon 13, its slightly heavier cousin. By sampling ancient limestones, Knoll and his colleagues have determined that the ratio of carbon 12 to carbon 13 remained stable for most of the Proterozoic Eon, a boggling expanse...
...ASSASSINATION OF RABIN DEMONstrates that the rise of religious fundamentalism, be it Christian, Islamic or Jewish, presents the greatest danger to world peace. MICHAEL LIPSHUTZ North Caulfield, Australia...