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...Anyone who has gazed at the bright sliver of a crescent Moon in clear skies has probably also noticed that the dark side is not entirely dark. The faint glow rounding out the Moon is earthshine: light from the bright day side of Earth shining on the night side of the Moon. Scientists have studied earthshine for decades - but Langford, along with her colleagues at Melbourne and Princeton Universities, decided it would make a perfect test case for detecting oceans and landmasses on a faraway alien world...
...salutary rudeness and its flashes of male nudity that few will find erotic, Observe and Report eventually chickens out. The apparently unbreakable rule of modern comedy is that audiences not only have to laugh while they're watching it, they must also leave with a smile, a glow that tells them all's right with the world, until they get back into the world. You can't have the cleansing anarchy and bile of classical comedy; that might sow sullen word of mouth and reduce the box-office revenue by a few dollars...
...Enjoy dinners in the dim romantic light of Sandrine’s rather than the dim electric glow of your screen...
...awkwardness of that mutual incomprehension was nothing compared to the cacophony Younis faced when she brought her musicians back to Jenin, the glow of the beach and musical triumph still on their faces. The trip had provoked the wrath of Zakaria Zubeidi, head of President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement in the area. Zubeidi banished Younis from Jenin, forcing the closure of the music school where she had spent the last six years teaching Palestinian teenagers to play the violin, the Oud and drums. "The children are now crying. They're afraid," Younis told TIME in a telephone interview. "One girl...
...morning and look in the mirror." From a President only 73 days into his job to a politician who has served, respectively, as Chancellor and Prime Minister since 1997, such a response might have seemed presumptuous. Instead Brown smiled, apparently happy to bask in the reflected glow of Obama's optimism. Hope, as Obama continues to show, really can triumph over experience...