Word: faints
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After a year, he signed on as a graduate student at Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin and embarked on the work that would one day make him famous: studying faint, hazy blobs of light called nebulae (from the Latin word for cloud) that are visible through even a modest telescope...
However, I take a dim view of the persistence of the "Radcliffe College" fictive shell. I perceive in it a faint odor of deception-it is as if the March of Dimes were to call itself a "medical school," because, after all, it too is in the business of medical research, educational opportunities for doctors, seminars, healing and raising money...
...faint of spirit, or the weak of back. It is a grueling combination of punches, kicks and squats set to the rhythms of hip-hop. Blanks first experimented with the karate-like sequences in his basement in Erie, Pa., two decades ago. He later opened a studio in California, where he has taught the routine to such famed hardbodies as Paula Abdul, Lisa Rinna and Wayne Gretzky. Last August he brought Tae-Bo to the people...
...setting for the Battle of theBulge, and in the end Herbert asserts that even"the dead also ask for fairy tales," eschewing thepost-World War II idea that fanciful poetry is nolonger appropriate, associating fairy tales forthe dead with "a handful of herbs," "needles byrustling / and the faint threads of fragrances":concrete instances of the sleepy and fantastic innature that persists in spite of human history.Herbert would honor the dead with his vision, or"our Ardennes forest," the line which closes thepoem...
Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution...