Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after sifting the scene for five hours, they came up with three main clues. One was a sweat-soaked man's T shirt, size 34-38, found on the floor of the living room outside the kitchen. Another was a set of "excellent" fingerprints revealed on a vanity mirror, a purse, a water glass, a door and a plate. The third, and not the least important, was Corazon's description of the killer: a white man, approximately 25 years old, 6 ft. tall, weighing 170 Ibs., with crew-cut brownish hair...
Chaos & Shock. The difference might seem negligible, but scientists have speculated for years on the fascinating possibility that for every bit of matter, there is an equal and opposite bit of antimatter somewhere in the universe. In the world of antimatter, all particles would be the exact mirror image of their material selves, except that their electrical charges and magnetic poles would be reversed. And it was this that the experiment at Brookhaven called into question. For if it had been done in an antimatter world, the faster positive pion would have been negatively charged. The theoretical symmetry of matter...
...every respect. Could the mysterious benefactor have been such a recluse that he never read newspapers or looked at TV? Why had he not called the police, Lim's family, or even a doctor? What about Sandra? She turned up on the front page of the Sydney Sunday Mirror, complete with pictures, on the same day that Lim returned, explaining that she and "Hocky" were merely good friends who often got together for a chat between floor shows, and that she had no idea where he had been. To all questions, Protocol Chieftain Abdul Rahman had no real answers...
...achieve lunar color photography, Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists in Pasadena first commanded the mirror mounted above Surveyor's fixed, black-and-white television camera to swivel and tilt until it reflected the proper piece of lunar terrain into the cam era lens. By radioed signal, they start ed a filter wheel turning until a red filter was in front of the lens. Then they ordered the camera to photograph the scene. The procedure was repeated twice more, once with a green and finally with a blue filter...
Many of Twain's books mirror the savage and embittered cynicism that lies on the other side of humor, and all of them are touched with violence and the despair of a man who courted the values of his time and despised himself for doing so. The raft on which Huck Finn and Nigger Jim drift down the river was Twain's own fantasy solution for evading nemesis. It was where he longed...