Word: glow
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...China's political world is concerned, this event, which takes place once every five years, is like the World Series, Super Bowl and Olympics all rolled into one. Policy is decided for the next five years, top jobs are handed out, the losers get dumped and the winners glow...
...encountered very different realities in the Arctic--and different reactions from locals. In Hammerfest, where reindeer graze in the glow of a gas flare, Purvis found Norwegians delighted by the rewards from a natural-gas extraction plant. In Resolute, the native Inuit are not so sanguine about the benefits of balmy weather. One man invited Graff to watch a videotape of his 16-year-old daughter killing her first polar bear, a rite of passage that is under threat as the melting ice reduces the bear population. For the Inuit, says Graff, "the idea that a warmer Arctic would...
...August, a wisp of flame suddenly appeared in the Arctic twilight over the Barents Sea, bathing the low clouds over the Norwegian port of Hammerfest in a spectral orange glow. With a tremendous roar, the flame bloomed over the windswept ocean and craggy gray rocks, competing for an instant with the Arctic summer's never-setting sun. The first flare-off of natural gas from the Snohvit (Snow White in Norwegian) gas field, some 90 miles (145 km) offshore, was a beacon of promise: After 25 years of false starts, planning and construction, the first Arctic industrial...
Elite athletes may be the epitome of health and fitness, but their workout-induced glow could be hiding a problem deep in their lungs. A new study of college athletes at Ohio State University (OSU) finds that young sports stars suffer from exercised-induced asthma much more than previously thought...
...Dominique Moïsi, senior adviser at the French Institute on International Relations, the statements by Bush and Sarkozy show that their meeting "was much ado about nothing". Despite the warm glow produced by a friendly cookout, Moïsi says the encounter won't have changed the differences between the two sides on such key issues as Iran, Iraq, Turkish membership to the European Union, global warming, or regulation of the economy. Sarkozy may be talking the talk more like Tony Blair, but when it comes to walking the walk, he'll look a lot more like Chirac...