1 Islamic law is a phenomenon so different from all other forms of law that its study is indispensable in order to appreciate the full range of possible legal phenomena adequately.
2 One such novel idea is that inserting into the chromosomes of plants discrete genes is not a part of the plants' natural constitution, and specifically, if they can be identified and isolated, the idea of inserting into nonleguminous plants the genes would fit the leguminous plants to be hosts for nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
3 Its subject is "life-as-spectacle", for readers, diverted by its various incidents; however, presents "life-as-experience ": readers are asked to identify with the mind of Achilles, whose motivations render him a not particularly likable hero.
4 The best evidence for the layered-mantle thesis is the well-established fact that volcanic rocks found on oceanic islands, which are believed to result from mantle plumes arising from the lower mantle and are composed of material fundamentally different from that of the mid-ocean ridge system.
5 Some geologists, however, on the basis of observations concerning mantle xenoliths, argue that the mantle is not layered, but that heterogeneity is created by fluids rich in "incompatible elements," which percolating upward and transforming portions of the upper mantle irregularly, according to the vagaries of the fluids' pathways.