In 2008, President David Leebron issued a ten point plan titled " Vision for the Second Century " outlining plans to increase research funding, strengthen existing programs, and increase collaboration.

The group includes Jared Cohon of Carnegie Mellon University, J. Bernard Machen of the University of Florida ; C. Daniel Mote, Jr. of the University of Maryland, College Park ; David Skorton of Cornell University ; Larry Vanderhoef of the University of California, Davis and David Leebron from Rice University.

David W. Leebron was appointed President in 2004 and succeeded Malcom Gillis who served since 1993.

The institute's board of advisors include William Barnett ( Chair ), Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright and Rice University's President David Leebron.

After the speaker declares that he has received the blessings of the Muses and thanks them for giving him inspiration, he explains that Chaos arose spontaneously.

Carpenter also explains that Costner and others involved in the film have admitted to watching the Robin of Sherwood as inspiration for their film.

Citing Claremont as inspiration for his run on New X-Men, Morrison explains Beast as a " brilliant, witty bipolar scientist.

In 1997, he saw his novel Le Racisme expliqué à ma fille published, wherein he " explains racism to his daughter ", using his family as inspiration for his novels.

Stephen Barber explains that " the Theatre of Cruelty has often been called an impossible theatre -- vital for the purity of inspiration which it generated, but hopelessly vague and metaphorical in its concrete detail.

Taking this inspiration, the narrator explains that his female acquaintance can " never be like common people ", because even if she gets a flat where " roaches climb the wall " ultimately, " if called dad he could stop it all ", in contrast to the true common people who can only " watch lives slide out of view ".

( A later " Martha " lyric explains, " You have always been my inspiration ..." McCartney has also said, cryptically, that the song is about his " muse "— the voice in his head that tells him what words and music to write.

Sturley's allusion probably explains why Greville took out the patent in the names of Best and Wells, for Sir Anthony Ashley described Best as `` a scrivener within Temple Bar, that deals in many matters for my L. Essex '' through Sir Gelly Merrick, especially in `` causes that he would not be known of ''.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

Only the product is required to calculate planetary positions for an ephemeris, which explains why ephemerides are calculated in astronomical units and not in SI units.

The Technical Assistance Manual for the ADA explains it: " III-3. 6000 Retaliation or coercion.

This explains the failure of the classical equipartition theorem for metals that eluded classical physicists in the late 19th century.

The term allomorph explains the comprehension of phonological variations for specific morphemes.

William of Tyre explains that " after suffering intolerably from the fever for several days, he ordered physicians of the Greek, Syrian, and other nations noted for skill in diseases to be called and insisted that they give him some purgative remedy.

In The Word for World Is Forest, Le Guin explains that in order for communication to work with any pair of ansibles, at least one " must be on a large-mass body, the other can be anywhere in the cosmos.

" After a string quartet ," Martin explains, " I do not think there is a satisfactory sound for strings until one has at least three players on each line ... as a rule two stringed instruments together create a slight " beat " which does not give a smooth sound.

This explains the dipole moment of 0. 8 D for this compound ( cis-isomer 0. 4 D ) where a value of zero is expected.

In a secret detailed letter to the Soviet leadership of July 21, 1967, Sakharov explains the need to " take the Americans at their word " and accept their proposal " for a bilateral rejection by the USA and the Soviet Union of the development of antiballistic missile defense ", because otherwise an arms race in this new technology would increase the likelihood of nuclear war.

She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

This explains that road signs in Flanders are written in Dutch, even when referring to a Walloon region, and conversely, which can be confusing for foreigners who do not know the different translations of Flemish or Walloon cities in the other language.

He goes on to explain what is meant by each of these seven assertions, but briefly in a subsequent commentary he explains that the conventions of the world do not exist essentially when closely analyzed, but exist only through being taken for granted, without being subject to scrutiny that searches for an essence within them.

He is approached by a woman who explains she is Sarah Tyrell, niece of Eldon Tyrell, heiress to the entire Tyrell Corporation and the human template ( templant ) for the Rachael replicant.

Thus, the Big Bang theory cannot and does not provide any explanation for such an initial condition ; rather, it describes and explains the general evolution of the universe going forward from that point on.

In Ó Duinnín's Irish dictionary ( 1904 ) it is referred to as Céadamh ( ain ) which it explains is short for Céad-shamh ( ain ) meaning " first ( of ) summer ".

Richard Nelson explains: The needs of the centralised monarchy favoured a single story of origins combining old traditions of an exodus from Egypt, belief in a national god as " divine warrior ," and explanations for ruined cities, social stratification and ethnic groups, and contemporary tribes.

This explains why current studies are focused on illnesses commonly found in developed countries, where more people can afford to pay for treatment.

Tooze explains that the German economy was planning for a long war.

She explains the origin of mankind within the story to the game's main protagonist, Desmond Miles, through his ancestor, Ezio Auditore.

In the study of mythology the term " myth " refers to a traditional story, often regarded as sacred, which explains how the world and its inhabitants came to have their present form.

Cornet Bay offers boat launches and fishing opportunities, while Bowman Bay has an interpretive center that explains the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps throughout Washington state.

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

In the second piece, a character explains that he is writing his portion because another had observed to him that the events surrounding the disappearance of a certain moonstone might reflect poorly on the family, if misunderstood, and therefore he was collecting the true story.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

* Origin story, or pourquoi story, a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is

Andy is interviewed for the story and explains that, as a teenager, he had used escapist novels in order to cope with his alienating school and home life in Buffalo, NY.

M. L. West writes that the story of Pandora and her jar is from a pre-Hesiodic myth, and that this explains the confusion and problems with Hesiod's version and its inconclusiveness.

In the DVD commentary, Letts himself cannot recognise the prop but remarks that this serial was produced out of transmission order ; this explains why the sonic screwdriver reverts to its previous appearance for one story before receiving a more permanent refit thereafter.

The story explains the confusion of tongues: variation in human language.

The story of the tower of Babel explains the origins of the multiplicity of languages.

The Stonecutter is an old Japanese fairy tale with a story that explains social and natural hierarchies as a strange loop.

* Ian Fleming, in his novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, named the family patriarch " Caractacus Potts ", and in the story, explains the significance of the name to his readers.

In the prologue, he explains how he managed to get another story about Oz, even though it is isolated from all other worlds.

Oelph explains that he stopped DeWar's story as he did because that is where versions of the story differ dramatically.

An alley in a very crowded area of downtown Santiago, Chile is named after the town of Lidice too, and one of the buildings there has a small plaque that explains its tragic story.

It also explains how the story grew from this first idea into the published version.

Realizing his story is true, Mark stops Hubbard from leaving and explains his theory.

From the ashes of the Titans, mixed with the divine flesh they had eaten, came humankind ; this explains the mix of good and evil in humans, the story goes, for humans possess both a trace of divinity as well as the Titans ' maliciousness.

He explains the story of his birth, how his mother Semele had enamoured the god Zeus, who had come down from Mount Olympus to lie with her.

A story in Endless Nights, set long before any other Sandman story, explains the origins of the Desire / Dream enmity, and reveals that before this Desire was Dream's favorite sibling.