Word: limelight
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...sequel to the propaganda bonanza that was Elian I may backfire on the Cubans. It was, after all, the image of a child's emotional life being torn apart by politics that made the anti-Castro forces the losers last time around. Bringing the boy back into the political limelight in New York might well play the other way. Or, to put it in culinary terms, you can't reheat a souffl?...
...body. In 1994 Carson and his wife Candy created a scholarship fund for top students in Grades 4 through 12. "I find that in a lot of schools, kids think it's not cool to be smart," Carson says. He would like young scholars to get some of the limelight that's usually trained on athletes...
...limited to just a few labs, even if there are only a few dozen cell lines," he says. "That's the most important thing." Such altruistic concern for the progress of his chosen science is characteristic of the man. Even before he was caught in the limelight, he went about his experiments so conscientiously that they set the ethical standard by which all research in the field is measured...
...spend a whole week discussing ethnic violence in Indonesia or the Balkans or Burundi or England, slavery in the Sudan or the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas. And too much focus on the Middle East might even help some governments keep their own skeletons out of the limelight...
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