According to Asch's wishes, these recordings have remained in print under the Smithsonian / Folkways auspices.

According to Smithsonian curator Dr. Jeffrey Post, the element boron may be responsible for causing the blue color of the stones after tests using infrared light measured a chemical spectrum of the gems.

According to Smithsonian magazine, the first Fresnel lens was used in 1823 in the Cordouan lighthouse at the mouth of the Gironde estuary ; its light could be seen from more than out.

According to the Smithsonian Institution and Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ), the Wrights made the first sustained, controlled, powered heavier-than-air manned flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, four miles ( 8 km ) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903.

According to the Smithsonian magazine, Kanzi " has the mien of an aging patriarch – he's balding and paunchy with serious, deep-set eyes.

According to the Smithsonian Institution Press, Fiesta's appeal lies in its bright colors, modern design, and affordability.

According to Smithsonian Online Magazine, Tao could carry out basic arithmetic by the age of two.

According to the Smithsonian Institution's Volcanic Explosivity Index, a VEI of 6 to 8 is classified as " Ultra Plinian.

According to the Smithsonian National Museum of National History, it peaks at 879 meters ( or 2, 884 feet ) and its last eruption was noted in 1787 ( Global ).

According to the Smithsonian archive ( see external links ), the monument dates from 1941, was dedicated in 1942, and measures approximately 126 x 168 x 99 inches.

According to Cheng Li of the Brookings Institution, four additional individuals have more or less secured their membership in the next PSC: Vice Premier Wang Qishan, Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang, Organization Department head Li Yuanchao, and Propaganda Department head Liu Yunshan.

According to the Hoover Institution's website: " By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals.

According to an analysis published by Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution in 2008 Pakistan was the worlds ' most active ' state sponsor of terrorism including aiding groups which were considered a direct threat to USA.

According to a 2011 salary survey by the American Institution of Chemical Engineers ( AIChE ), the median annual salary for a chemical engineer was approximately $ 110, 000.

* According to the Institution of Housing in 2005, the U. S. Government has focused 42 % more on foreign countries rather than homeless Americans, including homeless veterans.

According to the 1779 book Nocturnal Revels, on the Grand Tour he had visited various religious seminaries, " founded, as it were, in direct contradiction to Nature and Reason ; on his return to England, thought that a burlesque Institution in the name of St Francis, would mark the absurdity of such Societies ; and in lieu of the austerities and abstemiousness there practised, substitute convivial gaiety, unrestrained hilarity, and social felicity.

According to a 1995 Brookings Institution report, in 1980 there were thirty-six laws that qualify as unfunded mandates.

According to David Shambaugh, professor of political science and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs and a fellow of the Brookings Institution, the CCP's propaganda system extends itself as a sprawling bureaucratic establishment, into virtually every medium concerned with the dissemination of information.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Mexico had 16 companies in the list.

According to the Global Competitiveness Report, the Most Problematic Factors for Doing Business is the access to finances, corruption and bureaucracy.

According to Ugandan AIDS activists, the Global Gag Rule undermined community efforts to reduce HIV prevalence and HIV transmission.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme, it shrank as much as 95 % from about 1963 to 1998, but " the 2007 ( satellite ) image shows significant improvement over previous years.

According to the 2005 Global Sex Survey by Durex people have had on average 9 sexual partners, the most in Turkey ( 14. 5 ) and Australia ( 13. 3 ), and the least in India ( 3 ) and China ( 3. 1 ).

According to the CSUCS 2004 Global Report on the Use of Child Soldiers, there were at least nine documented suicide attacks involving Palestinian minors between October 2000 and March 2004: but also stated, " There was no evidence of systematic recruitment of children by Palestinian armed groups.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

According to the 2011 Global Go To Think Tank Index, Cato is the 6th most influential US based think tank, ranking 3rd in Economic Policy and 2nd in Social Policy.

According to the Global Health Council, rather than the use of professionally schooled doctors, the training of villagers to remedy most maladies in towns in the developing world is most appropriate.

According to Ode, " In the field of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability, David leads the movement towards a more sustainable future, as manifested in many international forums and gatherings, such as the Global Forum ' Business as an Agent of World Benefit: Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change '".

According to the Kyodo News, in March 2010 PRC officials told US officials that they consider the South China Sea a " core interest " on par with Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang In July 2010 the Communist Party-controlled Global Times stated that " China will never waive its right to protect its core interest with military means " and a Ministry of Defense spokesman said that " China has indisputable sovereignty of the South Sea and China has sufficient historical and legal backing " to underpin its claims.

According to the 2003 PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Forest & Paper Industry Survey, the top 10 forest and paper products companies in Japan were:

According to the 2009 PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Forest & Paper Industry Survey, the top 10 forest and paper products companies in Europe were:

According to the Christian Science Monitor, " C. Peter Wagner, head of Global Harvest Ministries in Colorado Springs, Colo., is in the vanguard of the warfare movement.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list Berkshire Hathaway is the eighth largest public company in the world.

According to the survey in 2010 by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, 76 % of Pakistanis polled supported the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion.

Raam currency. According to Benjamin Feldman, the Minister of Finance for the Global Country of World Peace: " There are 1. 5 billion people living in extreme poverty and currencies like the US dollar are not available to most of them.

According to Maharishi Global Financing, agreements were made in 2004 with a farmers ' association in South America and with traditional leaders in Africa to start using the Raam for agricultural development projects.

According to the Global Internet Statistics in 2003, internet population around the world has grown exceptionally fast in less than a decade, rising from 16 million users in 1995 to approximately 680 million in late 2003.

According to Edwin Rekosh, Executive Director of PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law ( www. pilnet. org ), " public interest law does not describe a body of law or a legal field ; the term was adopted to describe whom the public interest lawyers were representing, rather than what matters they would work on.

According to information provided by the Intelligence Resource Program of the Federation of American Scientists based on the 2003 Patterns of Global Terrorism report the strength of the organisation in terms of human resources remains unknown.

According to the One World Trust's Global Accountability Report 2008 which assessed a range of organisations in areas such as transparency, stakeholder participation and evaluation capacity, " IFOAM is the highest scoring international NGO, and at the top of the 30 organisations this year with a score of 71 percent ".

According to its website, the Global Peacebuilding Center ( GPC ) is " designed to engage visitors in the work of the Institute and excite them about the role that they, as individuals, can play in the peacebuilding process.