Word: lensed
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That is now difficult to do, and the consequence may be costly: prolonged exposure to invisible ultraviolet beams of sunlight may permanently damage the eyes. Ultraviolet-B is thought, for example, to be a major factor in the formation of cataracts, in which the normally transparent lens of the eye...
"This is the true story," Mary McGarry Morris begins her first novel. "It starts once upon a summer day in Vermont." A half-naked Lorelei picks up a child-man who is working on roads for the county. The simpleton extends "his tarry hand." Immediately the voluptuous girl steals a...
What is clear, however, is that the anchor had a remarkable gift for talking to a TV camera. Blair recounts that Savitch once told a colleague that her trick was to focus on a spot in the middle of her head and project it through her eyes to the other...
Before dealing with the core, though, scientists had to understand the intervening mantle, through which all seismic information has to pass on its way to the surface. Explains Dziewonski: "If it's a faulty lens, you're going to have a wrong image." By 1984 the Harvard group had assembled...
An even more striking feature of the Olympus is its "auto zooming portrait mode." The user simply selects the proper setting on the camera's control panel, points and clicks. The lens will zoom in or out to ensure that the subject's head and shoulders are well framed in...