Word: bleaker
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...never talked about the effects of the environment,” Kulathinal said, adding that it is possible for one’s chromosomes to tell a bleaker story then narrated...
Democrats once thought a bleaker outlook in Iraq would help their nominee convince Americans that the time has come to find another Commander in Chief and that new revelations about how the Administration missed advance signs of 9/11 were just the thing to put a dent in George Bush's political armor. Both possibilities have come to pass, but the latest polls suggest they may make John Kerry's challenge harder, not easier. As one Democratic strategist says, "No matter how bad Bush does on the war and 9/11, just having voters think about it kills us." Another puts...
Life has been good to Mervyn L. and Joyce Alphonso: four healthy children, a six-bedroom house, a Mercedes in the driveway. But a few decades ago, life was much bleaker. They were both surviving day to day in Guyana, their families crowded into small cottages without indoor plumbing. Mervyn's father had died when he was 13, casting the youngster into the work force as a messenger who also attended school; Joyce studied furiously in the hopes of getting a job abroad...
Sunan Airport on the outskirts of North Korea's capital city, Pyongyang, is one of the world's bleaker transportation hubs, a collection of featureless concrete buildings distinguished only by a giant portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il gazing beatifically over shabby tarmac. Though unpicturesque, Sunan has been providing U.S. spy satellites with plenty of photo opportunities of late. On at least six occasions between April and early July, satellites spotted Iranian IL-76 cargo planes being loaded with wooden crates at Sunan. The frequency of the flights was unusual?normally no more than two flights a year...
...Stewart's sense of humor stands him in good stead during a forbidding journey that begins in Istanbul and then carries him through bleak Russia, bleaker Kazakhstan and into the finality of Mon-golia, a swept land that "made the sky ... seem crowded and fussy." Inspired by what he perceives as the Arcadian freedom of the nomads?the word Mongo-lian, he writes, "evokes the scent of grass and of fallen leaves, some atmosphere of twilight and horses"?Stewart plans to journey the 1,600-kilometer breadth of Mongolia by horse, not a good idea unless your last name...