Word: brighter
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...Meanwhile, Mars is in its biannual "opposition" to the earth, when it is lined up opposite the Sun, with Earth in between. This year, the Red Planet is a mere 42 million miles from Earth, the closest since 1988. For the next two weeks, it will glow orange-gold, brighter than anything in the night sky except the moon...
...Despite veiled references to strained relations throughout the ceremony, the summer school partnership stands as one of the brighter moments in relations between Cambridge and Harvard in the last several years...
...proposed opening of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling as an assault on the environment and accused the President of using the new policy to reward former colleagues and supporters in the oil industry. Bush maintained that his proposals would "light the way to a brighter future," and tackle the countrywide energy shortages that have already brought rolling blackouts to California. As U.N. Climate Change chief Jan Pronk called the plan a "disastrous development," Bush's supporters emphasized the conservation measures that will give tax breaks for fuel-efficient cars and energy-efficient homes...
...situation today is both bleaker and brighter than that in 1991. The AIDS pandemic is cutting through lives and communities like a scythe, threatening to swallow a whole generation. But international policy is coalescing like never before: in a historic summit, more than 30 African heads of state gathered in Nigeria last month for an AIDS conference. African leadership must be the core of any strategy to combat the epidemic. Now, after tragic years lost, it seems that such leadership is beginning to emerge. At that meeting, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the leaders to multiply their health...
...department officials have argued that conservation techniques are expensive, saying that they would not make a significant impact on energy demand. However, conservation could significantly cut energy costs in the long run and should be seen as an investment with very high potential rates of return. New technologies like brighter lightbulbs and improved insulation offer the chance to reduce energy use without sacrificing convenience. And these gains could be significant: If the U.S. government (the country’s largest energy consumer) cut its own power consumption by one-fifth, as the energy department scientists deem it could...