Word: eye
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...circle with our legs folded? Where's the incense? Why are Larry and Steve dressed like stockbrokers, and shouldn't they have more glamorous names? I knew I looked puzzled. Larry must have noticed it too, because I soon saw him coming toward me from the corner of my eye...
Your headline on page 2 of Saturday's Crimson ("Sex at Harvard: Getting to Yes," April 4) caught the eye of those of us in the business of Getting to Yes. I'll leave the discourse on "sex at Harvard" to the people who tend to write letters like, "I never thought I'd be writing you this letter, but I want to share an amazing..." I can speculate that if we could solve the problem of "getting to yes," General Education 174 would be a pretty damn popular class...
Though many scientists dismiss the notion of blowing up killer asteroids as a last-ditch attempt to find some role for nuclear weapons, they do think keeping an eye on runaway asteroids makes sense. This week, after several months of studying the issue, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will urge Congress to establish a tracking and detection system that could sound the alert if a big chunk of celestial rock starts heading this...
...that brave new world, people might pop vitamins C and E to deter the development of cataracts, the clouding of the lens in the eye that afflicts 20% of Americans over 65. Patients taking high doses of both vitamins appear to reduce the risk of cataracts by at least 50%, according to a Canadian study. Vitamin C may be especially efficient because it concentrates in the eye. Scientists at the National Eye Institute estimate that if cataract ; development could be delayed by 10 years, about half of cataract surgery could be eliminated...
...power for Le Pen's National Front. It has only one parliamentary seat now, but if last week's voting pattern were repeated under full proportional representation, it would rocket up to 77 seats (out of 577). A onetime student thug in the Latin Quarter who lost an eye in a street brawl, and an ex-paratrooper who interrogated prisoners in Algiers (he denies having tortured them), Le Pen tries these days to project a more moderate personal image. He dresses in dark suits and subdued neckties rather than the army khakis he once affected. But his message is still...