Born in Germany in 1602, Kircher rose to prominence as the author of sweeping studies on magnetism, optics, astronomy, hieroglyphics, alchemy, numerology, music, and medicine, and as the builder of whimsical devices, such as the cat organ, in which a keyboard was rigged to the tails of cats of "differing size" to elicit meows of "differing tonal magnitude".
Congo has been the subject of sweeping studies before, including some by the International Rescue Committee, a private aid organization, which has estimated that Congo's civil war has claimed more lives than any other conflict since World War II.
MELVIN KONNER is neither a conventional scholar of Judaism nor a historian -- two reasons, perhaps, why his sweeping study of the Jews feels so fresh and alive.
War always brings clothing back to the status quo, according to James Laver, the historian who traced the rise and fall of waistlines as symbolic of social upheaval in his sweeping study "Costume: The Arts of Man," published in 1963.
In the meantime, the bureau will continue with its plans to conduct a sweeping study on the environmental impacts of large-scale solar development on public land in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, said a spokeswoman, Celia Boddington.
Konner's sweeping study follows a roughly historical outline, from the earliest prebiblical days to the establishment of the state of Israel, and tracks down far-flung Jewish communities in China, India and Afghanistan.
Mr. Evans's ruling was issued in conjunction with the release of a sweeping study, mandated by Congress, that tried to gauge the effects of such fishing on three varieties of dolphin.
In a sweeping study of Medicare records, researchers from Philadelphia and Menlo Park, Calif., examined the effects of joint replacement among nearly 135,000 patients with new diagnoses of osteoarthritis of the knee from 1997 to 2009.
A bill recently passed in the New York Legislature would require the Port Authority to conduct a sweeping study of the cumulative noise levels and land use compatibility around the city's airports.
But since its release in August, "Through the Eye of a Needle," Peter Brown's sweeping study of the changing attitudes towards wealth among Christians of late antiquity, has become something of a commercial hit, selling about 13,000 copies and becoming Princeton University Press's top-selling book of 2012.
The CDC's numbers echo a sweeping study from the US surgeon general released last November that found that 21 million Americans struggle with substance abuse.
