Passage 25In 1977 the prestigious Ewha Women‘s University inSeoul， Korea， announced the opening of the firstwomen’s studies program in Asi...
Passage 26In choosing a method for determining climatic condi-tions that existed in the past， paleoclimatologists invokefour principal criteria. First...
Passage 27Since the late 1970‘s， in the face of a severe loss ofmarket share in dozens of industries， manufacturers inthe United States have bee...
Passage 28The settlement of the United States has occupied traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner developed his Frontier Thes...
Passage 29Studies of the Weddell seal in the laboratory have described the physiological mechanisms that allow the seal to cope with the extreme oxyge...
Passage 30Since the early 1970‘s， historians have begun to devote serious attention to the working class in the United States. Yet while we now ...
Passage 31The number of women directors appointed to corpo-rate boards in the United States has increased dramati-cally， but the ratio of female to ma...
Passage 32Increasingly， historians are blaming diseases imported from the Old World for the staggering disparity between the indigenous population of ...
Passage 33Until recently most astronomers believed that the space between the galaxies in our universe was a near-perfect vacuum. This orthodox view o...
Passage 34Kazuko Nakane‘s history of the early Japanese immi-grants to central California’s Pajaro Valley focuses on the development of fa...