Thank you. It's great to see so many of you interested in this series on Survival in Outer Space. Please excuse the cameras; we're being______for the local TV stations. Tonight I'm going to talk about the most basic aspect of survivalthe space suit....
So, why did what is now called modern dance begin in theUnited States? To begin to answer this question, I'll need to______a little bit and talk about classical______. By the late 1800's, ballet had lost a lot of its popularity. Most of the ballet da...
I'm sure almost every one of you looked at your watch orat a clock before you came to class today. Watches and clocks seem as much apart of our life as breathing or eating. And yet, did you know that watches andclocks were______in the United States u...
Welcome to Yellowstone National Park. Before we begin our nature walk today, I'd like to give you a short history of our National Park Service. The National Park Service began in the late 1800's. A small group of explorers had just completed a month-...
Today we'll examine the role that private transportation,______, the______plays in city planning. A number of sociologists blame the automobile for the decline of the downtown areas of major cities. In the 1950's and 1960's the automobile made it pos...
Let's ______ to the main exhibit hall and look at some of the actual vehicles that have played a ______role in speeding up mail delivery. Consider how long it used to take to send a letter across a relatively short distance. Back in the 1600's it too...
I want to welcome each and every balloon ______ to Philadelphia. Thank you for coming here this morning to _______ the first balloon ______ in the United States. On January 9, 1793, at ten o'clock in the morning, a silk balloon lifted into the skies...
A lot of people in the United Statesare coffee drinkers. Over the last few years, a trend has been developing to introduce ______,specially ______coffees, known as _______coffees into the American market.Boston seems to have been the _______ of this...
Good evening. My name is Pam Jones, and on behalf of the Modern Dance club, I'd like to welcome you to tonight's program. The club is pleased to______the TV version of The Catherine Wheel, Twyla Tharp's rock______. This video version of the ballet ha...
Good afternoon. I'm here today to talk to you about a career with our______. We're especially interested in_______people to fill______for flight_______. First of all, to work as a flight attendant with us, you must be accepted into our training progr...
It seems like only yesterday that Iwas sitting where you are, just finishing my first year of medical school andwondering if I'd ever get a chance to use all my new knowledge on a real______patient! Well, I have good news for you! You don't have to w...
In our lab today, we'll be testing the______that babies can count as early as five months of age. The six babies here areall less than six months old. You'll be watching them on______________and measuring theirresponses. The experiment is based on th...
You might think that most of thepatients at sleep clinics are being treated for sleeplessness, commonlyreferred to as______,but that is not the case. The majority of sleep-clinic patients suffer from______of excessive sleep, or _____. While most_____...
Before moving on to a new topic, I want to finish up ourunit on______by looking at what may seem a very unusual aspect of_____behavior, a______where the young spiders actually_______the body of their mother. Unlike most other spiders, this species la...
Human populations near the equator haveevolved dark skin over many generations because of exposure to the fierce raysof the Sun. A similar phenomenon has also occurred in other parts of the animalkingdom. The African grass mouse is a good example. Mo...
