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CHAPTER THE THIRD

THE NEW PHASE

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In the course of the next six months the child of the ages became an almost ordinary healthy baby, and Trafford began to think consecutively about his scientific work again--in the intervals of effort of a more immediately practical sort.

The recall of molecular physics and particularly of the internal condition of colloids to something like their old importance in his life was greatly accelerated by the fact that a young Oxford don named Behrens was showing extraordinary energy in what had been for a time Trafford's distinctive and undisputed field. Behrens was one of those vividly clever energetic people who are the despair of originative men. He had begun as Trafford's pupil and sedulous ape; he had gone on to work that imitated Trafford's in everything except its continual freshness, and now he was ransacking every scrap of suggestion to be found in Trafford's work, and developing it with an intensity of uninspired intelligence that most marvellously simulated originality. He was already being noted as an authority; sometimes in an article his name would be quoted and Trafford's omitted in relation to Trafford's ideas, and in every way his emergence and the manner of his emergence threatened and stimulated his model and master. A great effort had to be made. Trafford revived the drooping spirits of Durgan by a renewed punctuality in the laboratory. He began to stay away from home at night and work late again, now, however, under no imperative inspiration, but simply because it was only by such an invasion of the evening and night that it would be possible to make headway against Behren's unremitting industry. And this new demand upon Trafford's already strained mental and nervous equipment began very speedily to have its effect upon his domestic life.
1. Did the child become ordinary and healthy?
2. Who was doing work?
3. What kind of work?
4. What was he trying to remember about colloids?
5. What subject are they a part of?
6. Who was from Oxford?
7. Was he lazy about his work?
8. What did he show?
9. Was he encroaching on Trafford's territory?
10. Who do people like Behrens frustrate?
11. Who did he learn from?
12. What did Trafford treat him like?
13. Did he mimic Trafford in every manner?
14. Where did it differ?
15. So what was he looking for now?
16. Was he considered an authority?
17. Was Trafford always given credit for what was his own idea?
18. Who would be given credit?
19. Who did Trafford cheer up?
20. How?

Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. Trafford
3. scientific
4. the internal condition
5. molecular physics
6. Behrens
7. no
8. extraordinary energy
9. yes
10. originative men
11. Trafford
12. a sedulous ape
13. no
14. continual freshness
15. unknown
16. yes
17. no
18. Behren
19. Durgan
20. a renewed punctuality in the laboratory

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Tibet (i/tbt/; Wylie: Bod, pronounced [p]; Chinese: ; pinyin: Xizang) is a region on the Tibetan Plateau in Asia. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Qiang and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people. Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft). The highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest, earth's highest mountain rising 8,848 m (29,029 ft) above sea level.

The Tibetan Empire emerged in the 7th century, but with the fall of the empire the region soon divided into a variety of territories. The bulk of western and central Tibet (U-Tsang) was often at least nominally unified under a series of Tibetan governments in Lhasa, Shigatse, or nearby locations; these governments were at various times under Mongol and Chinese overlordship. The eastern regions of Kham and Amdo often maintained a more decentralized indigenous political structure, being divided among a number of small principalities and tribal groups, while also often falling more directly under Chinese rule after the Battle of Chamdo; most of this area was eventually incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai. The current borders of Tibet were generally established in the 18th century.
1. When were the current borders of Tibet established?
2. What is the average elevation of Tibet?
3. What is earth's highest mountain?
4. When did the Tibetan Empire emerge?
5. Where is the region of Tibet located?
6. What plateau is it on?
7. Besides the Tibetan people what other groups are there in Tibet?
8. What is the highest region on earth?
9. What eastern regions maintained a more decentralized structure?
10. What happened to the Tibetan Empire with it's fall?

Numbered answers:
1. 18th century
2. 4,900 metres
3. Mount Everest
4. 7th century
5. 8,848 m (29,029 ft) above sea leve
6. Asia
7. Monpa, Qiang and Lhoba
8. Tibet
9. f Kham and Amdo
10. fell under Chinese rule

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Buenos Aires ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the first one was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Senora Santa Maria del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million.

The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Province's capital; rather, it is an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores; both are now neighborhoods of the city. The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Its citizens first elected a chief of government (i.e. mayor) in 1996; previously, the mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.
1. What is the population?
2. What did they do in 1996?
3. What is another name for this?
4. What happened before that?
5. Where did the city's leader come from before?
6. By whom?
7. Is it a small city?
8. What is its rank?
9. Is it in a Province?
10. Since when?
Numbered answers:
1. around 17 million
2. Its citizens first elected a chief of government
3. mayor
4. the city was granted autonomy
5. the mayor was directly appointed
6. the President of the Republic.
7. No
8. it is the most populous city of Argentina
9. No
10. 1994