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...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...
...merits of free trade and free investment," there are limits. When Russian gas behemoth Gazprom started stalking the British supplier Centrica, officials let it be known that "any new ownership would face robust scrutiny." Put all those straws in the wind and you've got a flying haystack. "We're at a point here," says Kenneth Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia, "where if this is just a little pop it doesn't mean very much. But if it's the beginning of a trend...
...secretary of state. And their diatribe against the junior senator from New York mostly reveals Morris’ personal antipathies and paranoias. Morris is most interesting when he sticks to what he does best—political strategy. Unfortunately, his bits of incisive analysis are only needles in a haystack of hate.Morris begins from the assumption that Hillary Clinton will seek, and receive, the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, pointing to her strength as a fundraiser and her ability to appeal to the traditional Democratic base: minority voters, liberals, and women. And women—especially single women?...
...1920s and 1930s, TlMEstyle was a clever, sometimes irreverent blend of double-barreled adjectives (bald-domed, haystack-haired), word combinations (Nobelman, cinemaddict), neologisms (tycoon, socialite) and inverted sentences. Although that approach changed long ago, style, in a different sense of the word, remains vital to the magazine. Maintaining TIME's linguistic standards and revising them when necessary are the responsibility of the Copy Desk. Says Copy Chief Susan Blair: "Our main concern is to make the magazine as easy as possible to read. We don't want to throw the reader any curves...
...About 300 people have been turned away for being inadmissible for prior criminal violations, connections to terrorism, prior immigration violations,” he said. “Finding these needles in the haystack is what the system’s designed to do, and it’s working extremely well...