Treasure-hunting

Despite the (galling) fact that Vorman had absconded, Trix felt the need to clothe herself, so she quickly located her room and dressed while she mentally put herself in Vorman s shoes, or boots or whatever he was wearing. She didn t know the man well, but she knew his mission. And every time she figured it through, she came up with the same answer on finding that locket, he would do everything he could to deliver it to whoever had sent him on his treasure hunt. 

Quests and hunts. There are two basic types of adventure the quest and the treasure hunt. In a quest adventure, you re given a particular goal to achieve, such as solving a mystery or obtaining a single treasure. In a treasure hunt, you re trying to find as many treasures as possible to get a high score. 

The quest adventure is an all-or-nothing proposition. The program can give you a score to indicate how close you ve come to success, but you probably won t be satisfied until you solve it. The treasure hunt offers more satisfaction to the beginning adventurer since, if even a few treasures are found, there s a sense of accomplishment. If a quest is like climbing a mountain, a treasure hunt can be compared with hiking across a series of low hills. Each one has its own kind of satisfaction. 

Check that there are data and descriptions of the technology available to the students. They do not have time for a data treasure hunt. If information is really not there, the instructor must intervene... 

The Dr. Math column is part of the Math Forum (www.mathforum. com), a huge collection of math resources for students and teachers at all skill levels. Software reviews, Internet resources, lesson plans, and forums are grouped by subject area as well as age group. For students, activities include a "problem of the week" challenge and an online math treasure hunt. 

Thus, while it is difficult to test all combinations the approach can generate extremely large data sets of information that maps out the variable space. H owever, the problem can be somewhat like undersea treasure hunting in that, unless logic is used to choose the area in which to search, a lot of sea floor can be explored with no useful results. Powerful correlations can be developed only, therefore, if data from information rich areas that have a fundamental relationship to the properties of interest are mined. The point in all this is that without logical scientific thought to plan these experiments in regions of maximum potential a lot of useless information can be collected. 

The only time I observed him actually doing the same as the others on this day was the Anglo-Saxon treasure hunt, to which he wasn t contributing much and from which he didn t appear to be benefiting except, that is, in terms of social contact. 

Australian Research Council for helping to fund such a treasure. Lindy Shultz has also been generous with her skills and advice about layout and picture scanning. Owen Larkin has helped to hunt down potential pictures for the cover. Heather McCalman gave me important early encouragement. 

In conclusion, the initially imaginary world of 1-hydroxytryptamines and -tryptophans has become a real frontier in indole chemistry. Since this undeveloped world is rich in treasures, we hope many investigators come together to hunt down and own some of its valuable jewels. Our discoveries are only a part of the infinite abundance of treasures. 

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