Word: traced
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Another of the project's tests follows the breakdown of estrogen by allowing doctors to trace low levels of radioactive forms of the hormone molecules through the body. "Athletes destroy estrogen faster than non-athletes, so their bodies are exposed to less" of the hormone, and this may lead to decreased cancer risk, says Barbieri, who has worked with both Frisch and Snow in the past...
...writings. I am appalled that Paul de Man (or anyone else) could have held and expressed a view of cultural homogeneity that entailed anti-Semitism, and I am greatly distressed that he was an uncritical participant in a vicious time. The fact that the later de Man manifested no trace of anti-Semitism and fought against facile political totalization does not, for me, excuse his earlier writings. Barbara Johnson Professor of French and Comparative Literature
...hardly visit the great exhibition of English Gothic art, "The Age of Chivalry," which opened this month at the Royal Academy in London, without mixed feelings of delight, surfeit and loss. The first, obviously, because this is the first show to trace so large a part of England's cultural inheritance. It starts in 1216 with the enthronement of Henry III and ends with the death of the last Plantagenet, Richard II, in 1399, a span of nearly 200 years that brought Gothic art to England from France...
...shrine of the martyr Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, eight men were needed to carry all the gold out to the King's wagons.) Henry VIII - mainly wanted to raise money, but with Oliver Cromwell the vandalism turned ideological. The Roundheads were determined to erase every last trace of the image in English religious life, leaving only the abstract purity of the Word, the uncompromised Logos. Ordinary plunder, which spares wood and stone, became iconoclasm, which in the name of God spares nothing...
Harvard education experts trace the lack ofminorities in higher education to the decliningnumber of Blacks and Hispanics attending college.They say that cuts in federal aid to students,increasing tuition costs and insufficientrecruiting efforts have prompted the presentcrisis...