Word: haystacks
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NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK...
...Smith tells it, he was tending a grain field alone one day, when his master stopped by unescorted to dish out his customary abuse. Smith crushed his skull with a bat, stole his clothes, stuffed the corpse in a haystack and made off atop the dead Turk's horse, finding his way back to Europe along the ancient Silk Road...
...where, from the age of 13, British artist Andy Goldsworthy first learned his trade: how to use a shovel, skin a hare, build a dry-stone wall. It's also where he saw a painting in the lines of a plow on the land, a sculpture in a haystack, and where he realized that the idyllic landscape of rural England is one fashioned by sweat and privilege and kept green by death and dung. So, even if over the last 25 years Goldsworthy, now 50, has traveled far from home (and his fame has spread even further), there...
...have simple structures, low concrete-and-brick buildings with high walls. Some have underground bunkers for protection in case of attack. Outsiders easily mistake them for traditional village housing. "We know they exist," says the U.S. military official in Afghanistan. "But it's like finding a needle in a haystack." A Pakistani intelligence official says there are training camps in the region and that Pakistan is doing everything it can to find them and destroy them. "I don't say that [foreigners] are not here, but wherever we know of their presence, we go after them and take action...
...flashes from distant civilizations. But don’t look for ET and his friends to phone home any time soon. Bruce Betts, director of projects at the Planetary Society, the NGO funding the telescope, says, “I think it is realistic, but this is a gigantic haystack and we’re looking for a needle.” Betts admits that the project is based on several assumptions, “including that an advanced alien civilization is signaling out.” Big assumption, maybe, but Horowitz has always been up for the challenge...