Word: contrasts
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...Asia, parents are nearly always with their kids when they fall asleep," says Mindell. In the U.S., by contrast, when babies bed down in a separate room, "you're falling asleep on your own," Mindell says. "Mommy or Daddy puts you down, they walk out and they say goodnight." (See pictures of showbiz's hardest-working moms at LIFE.com...
...Washington's constricted calm is a smart contrast to the manic Travolta, who's channeling his strutting killer from Face/Off (an annoying switch from Shaw's steely British mercenary). Tony Scott, who did Top Gun and the earlier Washington movies Crimson Tide, Déjà Vu and Man on Fire, directs with his trademark gusto and a surfeit of many circling camera movements. A congestion of cars, arranged as carefully as clusters of Rockettes, isn't traffic; it's just the backdrop for a spectacular crash...
...defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, looked on from nearby, biting his fingernails. Knox, clad in a white blouse with a Peter Pan collar and sporting a pony tail, described a friendly relationship with the murder victim, one in which the girls shared pizza, talked dates and sunbathed together. That was in contrast to testimony earlier from Kercher's British girlfriends, who said the two women didn't get along...
...Raheleh Rahim, 27, an architect rushing toward the event dressed in white (in contrast to the black chador preferred by many conservative women) and a lot of makeup, told TIME, "[Ahmadinejad] has raised my retired grandmother's pension - she was a teacher - as well as my mother's salary - she is a nurse. These are the things that really matter." Mousavi supporters, she said, "keep talking about freedom - I have all the freedom I need in this country...
...body language. The meaning of this new tone can be debated. Part of it may be attributable to the terrible military defeat Hamas suffered in Gaza, a recognition, finally, that Israel is simply not going away. Or Mashaal may be trying to present a more sympathetic face to contrast with Benjamin Netanyahu's recalcitrant Likud government in Israel. Whatever the reason, it certainly seems time to reassess the West's unwillingness to deal with Hamas. (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...