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...Blur the photo ever-so-slightly. The eye naturally strays to the most focussed area of an image, so if the model has legs that aren't stellar, a slight blur over the knees will appear as a printing defect, going unnoticed but subtly drawing the viewer's eye away from the problem area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Editor's Note: How To | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...offense will have to make do without the services of senior forward Carrie Jokiel (7, 5), whose career ended Oct. 15 after the Wildcats' captain suffered an injury that revealed a congenital birth defect...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leagues Women | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

Barak went on to obtain a master's in systems engineering from Stanford University. As is customary when an Israeli goes abroad, he chose a Hebrew replacement for his East European surname, Brog. Barak had the appropriately militaristic meaning of "lightning," but because of a speech defect that turns his r's into w's, he cannot quite pronounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gruff And Very Tough | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...EFFECT] 3.7 million families defect by next new episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Even before last Monday's game, millions of U.S. fans wished their teams could land a Cuban like Livan or Orlando Hernandez, the brothers who helped pitch the Florida Marlins and New York Yankees to World Series crowns in 1997 and 1998. But that can happen only if players defect and leave their families behind, as the Hernandezes did: Livan through Mexico and Orlando by boat. None defected last week, even though U.S. sports agents were practically leaning over the rails waving contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuban Aces Charm A Baseball-Loving City | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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