11.   Extensive efforts at authentication by three respected American scholars are detailed in the book.

12.   For most of their adult lives, as American legal scholars, they helped to sustain that faith during times when it was mocked as merely academic.

13.   He is being supported by a lengthening list of Middle Eastern intellectuals and some American scholars who would like to see Unesco get more international recognition.

14.   He has studied federalism extensively and spent a year at the Brookings Institution explaining Quebec to American scholars.

15.   He was released after an outcry from American scholars.

16.   In general, American scholars and businesspeople working here say opportunities for Americans are expanding rapidly.

17.   Investigators said that an American scholar had been given access to the documents after formally requesting permission to study them.

18.   Li Shaomin, a Chinese-born American scholar who was convicted of espionage earlier this month, was deported from China to the United States on Wednesday.

19.   That view is shared by many American scholars and diplomats who focus on China.

20.   The book was written by Wadie Jwaideh, an American scholar of Iraqi descent.