Word: mimics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...widely reported that damage to the left wing was visible in the picture, but the resolution turned out to be too poor to reveal anything conclusive. The agency was hopeful that the videotapes might yield more, but skeptics cautioned that even during routine re-entries, bursts of plasma can mimic the appearance of debris...
...What's particularly clever about "Eros" is the way Herpich uses the forms contained in a panel to mimic those of its predecessor. A fallen ice-cream cone transposes into an eye and a nose; the fluttering wings of a bug cut to a matching close-up of the ears of the jackass. These visual puns are the equivalent of clever poetic wordplay, but unique to comix. Herpich, who's pen and ink drawings are otherwise fairly simple, has a gift for the infinitely variable patterns of comix. Through repetition and pauses, panels that repeat something from before or else...
...think there is a good chance for moderate change,” says Zeckhauser, who predicts, for example, that more colleges will mimic Yale and Stanford’s recent switch...
Harvard posted an even more significant gain in the USCHO.com Pairwise Rankings where it took over the No. 1 spot for the first time all season. Because the Pairwise Rankings attempt to mimic the NCAA’s selection and seeding criteria, the rise suggests that the Crimson is back in control of its own destiny of earning the top seed...
...does offer travelers advice on navigating the new security system. Its suggestions include not locking your bag, since the TSA will break the lock if it has to; not packing any food or beverages (chocolate in particular can mimic the characteristics of explosives in the EDS machines); putting shoes on top so that they can be removed and searched easily; spreading books out and not stacking them on top of one another (stacked books are too dense for the EDS to "see" through and might trigger an alert); and putting all sharp items in a checked bag, not a carry...