Word: eye
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...example: preserving the atmosphere -- stopping ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect -- is an environmental necessity. In April scientists reported that ozone damage is far worse than previously thought. Ozone depletion not only causes skin cancer and eye cataracts, it also destroys plankton, the beginning of the food chain atop which we humans...
...correction of photographs, a technique performed on the computer imaging screens to ensure that pictures appear on the page with the same richness they have in the original photographs. "People still make the critical decisions," Stelzner insists. "There's no technology that can interpret color better than the human eye." A reassuring thought, because the object of all this effort is to turn out more pleasing pages for the eyes of our readers...
...when Graham took over as dean, Light says, "she took the school quickly and quite dramatically in the direction of getting involved with American public education. I think that caught President Bok's eye very quickly and the result is he's been much more involved...
...public eye, though, has turned to the spenders themselves, and the Ivory Tower is lined with red faces...
...real hypocrites, "Dersh" goes on to argue, are the anti-Semites who criticize Israel while turning a blind eye to atrocities in the Arab world and elsewhere. Here Dershowitz hits upon a thorny problem. The anti-Semitism he describes surely exists--his collection of anti-Semitic hate mail is evidence enough of that--and many do use criticism of Israel as a thin disguise for anti-Semitism...