These possiblities and potentialities are what has interested me most, and to explore them, Irene and I have selected a dozen of Poe's stories - ones which we felt lent themselves most readily to contemporary interepretations - and asked a number of artists to respond to them.
The concept was simple: Mr. McFerrin had selected a dozen pieces of music that played a significant role in his development, including spirituals he associated with his father, Robert Sr., the first black man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Hirsch and Mellins began soliciting applications for a paid undergraduate advisory board, ultimately selecting a dozen or so students, including members of the Greek system, student-government leaders, a ballerina in Columbia's General Studies program, anti-sexual-assault activists, a sex educator, a Barnard student, and an R.A.
A team led by physicist Diego Torres of Princeton University selected a dozen bright galaxies so close to our Milky Way that cosmic rays could travel here without getting slowed down by other radiation.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jeff L. Rosenheim, a photography curator, has selected a couple dozen of these big panoramas and interiors to make a pocket-size lament for a woebegone city.
"Those are good for standards," said Mr. Blevins, who has selected a few dozen of just such plants for training into potted trees.
To validate microarray findings, we selected a few dozens of genes within different clusters for quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis on an independent set of RNA samples.
Stirling has observed males select a single set of icy tracks from among dozens of overlapping possibilities, and follow those tracks persistently in pursuit of a mate.
And it gave the couple the idea for their Web site, Photofunia.com, which allows users to upload a photograph, select an image from dozens of templates showing a scene, and then merge the two photographs.
Select a frame (optional) from dozens of choices.
