【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ent.45．They were spurred by the inflation of the 197039。s，which，bined with California39。s rapid population growth，pushed housing prices，as well as rents, to record levels．46．Implicit in it is an aesthetic principle as well：that the medium has certain qualities of beauty and expressiveness with which sculptors must bring their own aesthetic sensibilities into harmony．47．With the turnofcentury Crafts movement and the discovery of nontraditional sources of inspiration，such as wooden African figures and masks，there arose a new urge for handson, personal execution of art and an interaction with the medium．48．The mon kestrel roosts and hunts alone，but the lesser kestrel roosts and hunts in flocks，possibly so one bird can learn from others where to find insect swarms．49．In the 1500s when the Spanish moved into what later was to bee the southwestern United States，they encountered the ancestors of the modern day Pueblo，Hopi，and Zuni peoples．50．During the 194039。s electron microscopes routinely achieved resolution better than that possible with a visible light microscope，while the performance of xray microscopes resisted improvement．5 1．What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish，harmful or affected．52．Satire jars US out of placence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false．53．With spontaneous irreverence，satire rearranges perspectives．scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude．54．It has lived because readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus，an irreverent reminder that they lived in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy．55． Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them。nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity．56．In addition to having to be a generalist while specializing in what may seem to be a narrow field，the researcher is faced with the problem of primary materials that have little or no documentation．，the degree to which cones are naturally slightly open or tightly closed helps determine which bill design is the best． was she，a Baltimore printer，who published the first official copies of the Declaration，the first copies that included the names of its signers and therefore heralded the support of all thirteen colonies． parison with these familiar yardsticks，the distances to the galaxies are inprehensibly large，but they too are made more manageable by using a time calibration，in this case the distance that light travels in one year. primary reason was skepticism that a railroad built through so challenging and thinly settled a stretch of desert，mountain，and semiarid plain could pay a profit． argument that humans，even in prehistoric times，had some number sense，at least to the extent of recognizing the concepts of more and less when some objects were added to or taken away from a small group，seems fair．for studies have shown that some animals possess such a sense． useful definition of an air pollutant is a pound added directly or indirectly by humans to the atmosphere in such quantities as to affect humans, animals，vegetation，or materials adversely．63．The acute，growing public awareness of the social changes that had been taking place for some time was tied to tremendous growth in popular journalism in the late nineteenth century，including growth in quantity and circulation of both magazines and newspapers．64．A detailed study has been made of the prints using photogrammetry，a technique for obtaining measurements through photographs，which created a drawing showing all the curves and contours of the prints．65．Footprints thus provide US not merely with rare impressions of the soft tissue of early hominids，but also with evidence of upright walking that in many ways is clearer than can be obtained from the analysis of bones．66．In fact，throughout the animal kingdom，from sponges to certain types of worms，shellfish，and all vertebrates(creatures possessing a spinal column), there is evidence that transplants of cells or fragments of tissues into an animal are accepted only if they e from genetically patible or closely related individuals．67．In the twenties，jazz became the hottest new thing in dance music, much as ragtime had at the turn of the century，and as would rhythm and blues in the forties，rock in the fifties，and disco in the seventies．68．They made these quilt until the advent of the Revolutionary War in 1775，when everything English came to be frowned upon．69．Growing tightly packed together and collectively weaving a dense canopy of branches, a stand of red alder trees can totally dominate a site to the exclusion of almost everything else.70．In taking up a new life across the Atlantic，the early European settlers of the United States did not abandon the diversions with which their ancestors had traditionally relieved the tedium of life．71． Farm dwellers in their isolation not only found it harder to locate panions in play but also thanks to the unending demands and pressures of their work, felt it necessary to bine fun with purpose.72．The scien