Word: glaringly
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...Baghran is along a dry riverbed; with vehicles negotiating fields of rough river stones, inconvenient boulders, dusty sand banks and pools of cold water. It's slow, slow going. On either side sheer mountains glare down like surly sentinels. Villages are few. At times we drove up from the river and across low folds of hills where endless gullies and draws make for good ambush. No wonder the Russians could never capture Baghran. A Soviet tank, ruptured by rockets, rusts at one turn; a scant reminder of a failed campaign...
...usually starts with a bumped shoulder or a stomped-on foot amid the thick smoke and boozy haze of a Bangkok disco. Then comes the chilling glare and the sudden appearance of men in black safari suits?often moonlighting cops or soldiers. But the sure sign there is about to be trouble?a merciless beating, a pistol-whipping or a shooting?is when the offended party with a chest full of gold chains asks: "Do you know who my father...
...usual, Spergel knew very little when he began. So, he says, "I got a book and taught myself optics." The result: a revolutionary idea for a telescope that could spot a dim planet in the glare of a bright star, potentially saving NASA billions of dollars and advancing the search for undiscovered planets as much as a decade. "I love exploring the frontiers of science," says Spergel. "I try to choose projects where the answers will be exciting not only for my colleagues but also for everybody else...
Person of the Week IN THE GLARE As FBI investigations heat up in the search for missing 24-year-old former federal intern Chandra Levy, U.S. Congressman Gary Condit gave samples of his DNA and passed a polygraph test in the hope of supporting his claims that he played no role in her disappearance...
...Jennifer Thomas was trying to fend off the media glare, flight attendant Anne Marie Smith was getting maximum exposure. She made the cable-network rounds and spent two days at FBI headquarters in Washington. Smith's story has grown increasingly sinister. Her lawyer, Jim Robinson, told Fox News that Smith had found "neckties tied together underneath [Condit's] bed, as if someone had been tied up," and that Smith had grown disturbed near the end of their relationship at some of Condit's "peculiar sexual fantasies." The lawyer didn't elaborate. On Friday night, on Larry King Live, Smith declared...