Word: faintly
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...scientists can offer no easy answer. Skeptics have failed to solve the mystery with statistics, and more detailed photographs do not exist. The gap may yet prove more illusory than real-an optical trick, perhaps, played by dwarf galaxies too faint to be detected. The group is going back for a closer look, but even if they find a small army of dwarfs, someone will still have to explain how it got there...
...which connect to the operators' office. Each operator sits in front of a long bank of flashing lights and colored buttons, wearing a clip-on earphone and a near-invisible, transparent, cable mouthpiece that keeps her hands free. When a call comes in, the console emits a faint beep and the operator answers it with the press of a button...
Prejudice certainly is widespread. Apart from a few extremist groups such as the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging, which bears more than a faint resemblance to the Nazis, ideological racism is rare. Whites do not openly make bigoted remarks. The literature of the ruling Nationalist Party contains no derogatory references to Blacks. But little things slip out. An English-speaking cab driver, who assured his passenger that he supported the reform-minded Progressive Federal Party, finished a lengthy discourse on poor Afrikaners (of predominantly Dutch stock, Afrikaners make up 65 per cent of the white population) by saying, "Why, some of these...
...Deputy Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping, China's most powerful leader, who had permitted a modicum of dissent in the late 1970s, much as Mao had launched his shortlived "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom" movement in 1957. Now Deng too has had second thoughts about the first faint burgeonings of freedom he inspired. Lately Deng has complained that the relative relaxation of recent years has led to a host of "unhealthy tendencies," most notably in literature and art. The press has referred darkly to the emergence of an artistic "counterculture" and complained of stories and plays that "propagate pessimism, nihilism...
...should not only show the formation and disintegration of the spokes during each rotation but also help explain what forces are acting on them. One theory: the spokes are in fact composed of dustlike particles lifted out of the thin ring plane by electrostatic forces perhaps created by the faint light of the distant...