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...more than a year into the conflict in Iraq and have yet to pacify that country. The U.S. is divided at home and beleaguered abroad, and the continued fortitude of Americans on the ground in Iraq is all the more inspiring because the prospects of success seem to grow fainter in spite of their efforts...
...becoming very conscious (again) that his father's wildly popular war on Saddam didn't save him from the 1991 recession, and that the longer the 2001 recession lasts - and the longer George W. is seen to be gazing overseas while the home front burns - the fainter voters' memories will be in 2004 of the way he fought his war. And he just wants something he can sign...
...freeway full of SUV?s. And I admit this: I share your cynicism. General-interest magazines like TIME have reduced the space devoted to reviews and expand their entertainment "news" coverage. The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill. That?s why many of us have made sorties into the electronic camp of the online enemy. Where can you find me every week? Not in TIME but, gratefully and lengthily, on time.com. It?s a place to take my expertise and passion for a good regular...
...aren't especially faint: he and his collaborators find planets by looking for stars that wobble under the gravitational tug of unseen companions. But the wobbles are so subtle that a lesser telescope can barely detect them. "With a 10-m telescope," says Marcy, "we can look at fainter stars and pick out the signature of smaller objects...
...argon, an inert gas. Then the case will be hung horizontally at the intersection of the Turin Cathedral's nave and transept, near the center of the cathedral's built-in cross. And thus six days after Easter, spectators will be allowed to view an image that has grown fainter with each unveiling: the portrait of a dead...