Word: distinguisher
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...designed to discourage all but the most determined customers, the Texas Field Guide has sold more than 6,000 copies-more than some bestselling novels. The author: Roger Tory Peterson, 51, the U.S.'s top birdman, whose wrinkle-ringed blue eyes (no spectacles except for close work) can distinguish between a harlequin duck and a common scoter half a mile away...
...acid bath left Riesel in a dim world of shadows. The unimpaired retinas of both eyes receive vague images, projected through scar tissue as through frosted glass. Both lenses are gone. He can detect violent movements, distinguish a truck from a car. But to tell time he must feel the hands of his watch; when he is dining at the Men's Bar in the Biltmore, a favorite haunt, friends must help him find the hamburger on his plate -and sometimes even the plate...
Tender Little Bull. Caracas-born Simon ("The Liberator") Bolivar was the country's first military dictator; he said that "as long as our fellow citizens do not acquire the talents and virtues which distinguish our brothers to the north, a radical democratic system, far from being good for us, will bring ruin upon us." When he died in 1830, Bolivar left the country to a long line of strongmen. In 1908 Juan Vicente Gómez, "Tyrant of the Andes," began a 27-year reign. That same year, in the poverty-ridden town of Guatire, 40 miles from Caracas...
...accuses the younger one of shaming her in front of her neighbors on the tram. The party breaks up. A little disappointed, but not much affected by the uproar, the young man walks home. "That's another day finished," he says to himself. There is not much to distinguish the young man who is undisturbed by the whore's embarrassment from several other young men in the collection, including the indoor sport who seduces the shallow young wife of the title story. Moravia's people do not really have faces, perhaps because he is less interested...
...Very disappointing," said the U.S. State Department. Chief problem is in providing a system sensitive enough to distinguish nuclear shocks from normal small earthquakes, of which thousands occur every year. Under the Russian-approved system, U.S. negotiators pointed out, the Nevada shot-a ig-kiloton explosion-would have been read as an earthquake, and therefore ruled out for inspection. New ammunition was a study made by the Rand Corp., at the suggestion of Dr. Edward Teller, director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Rand mathematicians theorized that any underground explosion can be "decoupled" by placing...