Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anti-war protest two weeks ago in Boston. I didn't go intending to participate; I just happened to be in Boston near the Common, and I was curious to see who was making all the noise. Although I initially looked at the protest with an critical and skeptical eye, I quickly became impressed by the size and enthusiasm of the crowd, a group of people intent on revitalizing the activism of the 1960s...
...typical adult needs about eight hours of shut-eye a night to function effectively. By that standard, millions of Americans are chronically sleep deprived, trying to get by on six hours or even less. In many households, cheating on sleep has become an unconscious and pernicious habit. "In its mild form, it's watching Ted Koppel and going to bed late and then getting up early to get to the gym," says Cornell's Pollak. In extreme cases people stay up most of the night, seeing how little sleep will keep them going. They try to compensate by snoozing late...
...friends who used to come here don't anymore," says Peter, adding that he's been coming to the Bow for 20 years. He points to a scar near his eye, which he got when someone cut it with a revolver at a fight outside the Bow during the seventies...
...aesthetics are, however, a crucial part of Pontifell's vision. He describes his books as "excessively beautiful to the touch, to the eye and even to the nose." His mother, a sculptor and artist, illustrated the Cronkite book, and he himself designs the gilt tooling on the leather editions, although he sends them to upstate New York to be worked...
...Brandenburg some said they were tired of campaigns and elections; others that they felt their votes, amid millions of ballots, counted for nothing. In an open-air market run by unemployed workers, one woman, retaining the old reluctance to give her name, dismissed any worry about absenteeism. Casting an eye backward in time, she said, "Of course they'll vote. It's a secret ballot...