At the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, audiences sit down to enjoy a live puppet show. _____ they will experience puppetry in its highest form. The theater's professional puppeteers are experts in any number of the dozens of puppetry styles, from hand puppetry to marionette puppetry.

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The vertical position of the Sun in the sky at a particular time of day varies throughout the year: due to Earth's axial tilt, it appears higher in the summer and lower in the winter. Axial tilt is not the only factor that effects the Sun’s___as the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit causes its position to vary horizontally as well, resulting in a figure-eight shape called an analemma (if the Sun’s position is recorded at the same time of day throughout the year).

The unique subak water management system used to irrigate the rice paddy fields of the Indonesian island of Bali has a rich cultural, philosophical, and historical significance dating back to the ninth century. The many elements of subak—terraces, canals, and water temples—are _______; they are joined together into a single cohesive unit.

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Taking an ecocritical approach to analyzing Tomas Rivera's novel And the Earth Did Not Devour Him would lead a critic to focus on the engagement with the environment inherent in the novel. On the other hand, a formalist analysis ______ on elements such as structure and imagery might yield a radically different interpretation of Rivera's novel.

Southern Colorado's Custer's County is among the most rural counties in the United States that the US Census Bureau classified as 100% rural in 2010. Researchers studying populations of counties like Custer often struggle to recruit and retain participants. Melissa Valerio and colleagues tested whether a method called snowball sampling could improve recruitment and retention. Working in two rural counties, the researchers identified a small number of people who had the characteristics desired for a proposed study and asked them to recruit additional participants from their social network. Valerio and her colleagues found that participants recruited via snowball sampling showed a much higher retention rate than people recruited by strangers, suggesting that...

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Traditionally, certain features of mosque architecture are nearly _______ such as the ablution (ritual cleansing) area, which almost all mosques include. But mosques can also be built to reflect a multitude of different architectural styles, as in the case of the Federal Territory Mosque, which includes elements from the Ottoman and Malay styles.

The dates that archaeologists assign to most of the colossal sculptures of human heads produced by the Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica are necessarily _______. The majority of the sculptures have been moved from their original context, making precise dating impossible.

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______ traditional descriptions of pollination syndromes (suites of floral traits, such as pistil length and flower size, hypothesized to have independently evolved as a result of selection pressure exerted by pollinators) and recent empirical observations of floral-trait combinations have led some ecologists to express reservations about the utility of those descriptions.

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Elisabeth Pötzelsberger and colleagues gathered data on 23 non-native tree species grown in Europe. They analyzed reports from Denmark, Finland, and Belgium about the number of these species grown by the timber industries in those countries. The researchers concluded that none of these countries’ timber industries grew all 23 species.

Number of the 23 Non-native Tree Species Grown in Three Countries

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Wildfires likely never happened in Antarctica. That’s what scientists used to think, but then a team of researchers discovered charcoal from the Cretaceous period in Antarctica. The team analyzed the charcoal and found that it likely came from a tree that burned in a fire. This suggests that wildfires may have indeed _______ in Antarctica millions of years ago.

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