Word: lightness
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...does not look like much of a threat. But the slender former bank clerk is a leading light of a community that some view with fear. Like more than 150,000 Poles, she now lives - and works - in Ireland. In January, more than 1,000 of her compatriots converged on Dublin's Temple Bar district to attend an annual fund raiser for children's hospitals in Poland. The event took place at one of Ireland's best-known concert venues, adorned with posters of Van Morrison and U2. Polish and Irish performers shared the stage as young Poles swilled Guinness...
...Franklin sees the future in an optimistic light. Believing at first that the flame-shaped award was meant to resemble a tear, Franklin was inspired when she discovered that it was intended to be a spark...
...research performed at Harvard and the University of Reading has shed light on one of biology’s longest-standing secrets...
Harvard’s students are particularly primed for narcissism. (How many Harvard students does it take to screw in a light bulb? One. He holds the light bulb and the world revolves around him.) We wrote admissions essays about how special we are and were admitted because someone believed them. Harvard, with its culture of hyper-achievement, is the perfect breeding ground for self-obsession and all its perils. We must bear not just our own narcissism but also the disappointment of being standouts for our entire lives only to arrive at college and become merely average...
...corruption, drug dealing and murder there that have long been kept under wraps, either by official complicity or negligence, are beginning to attract public scrutiny. Eight brazen and grisly murders -three Salvadoran congressmen and their driver, and four Guatemalan policemen -have shaken the two countries' governments and shed light on the criminal underworld operating with impunity from inside police forces...