Word: mirrored
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Named for Edwin Hubble, the great astronomer who discovered in the 1920s that the universe is expanding, the space telescope has a mirror 2.4 meters (7.9 ft.) in diameter that will focus light on an array of cameras and instruments. After recording and analyzing the radiation, the instruments will translate it into electronic impulses and beam it down to earth at a prodigious rate -- fast enough to fill a 30-volume encyclopedia in 42 minutes. Moreover, the Hubble will literally view the stars in a new light: the space observatory can see ultraviolet radiation that fails to reach ground telescopes...
...future utopia at Harvard in which a perverse sexual morality reigns and heterosexuals are executed for their failure to "experiment with an alternative lifestyle." The author doesn't recognize the irony that the improbable, intolerant nightmare she envisages--one for which no liberal would ever wish--is merely a mirror image of the more conventional sexual morality that she evidently sincerely wishes to impose on everyone...
Instead, the Crimson just saw a mirror image of last Wednesday's game. Two of the men who lost on Wednesday jumped back to victories on Sunday, while two who won on Wednesday fell to defeat the second time around. For Piltch's other five, Sunday's match was Wednesday: Part...
...less optimistic than whites but believe more strongly in education). Editors have even employed polls to study journalism itself. In the mid-1980s, with newspaper readership declining relative to population growth, researchers diagnosed widespread public skepticism about journalists' methods and motives. Confounded by inconsistencies in those surveys, Times Mirror, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and several other papers, hired the Gallup organization to get to the truth. Gallup reassuringly reported in 1985 that no credibility crisis existed...
...Watson and the Shark, 1778. The black has just thrown a line, without avail, to naked Watson, who wallows helplessly in the green waters of Havana Harbor as the shark charges in to bite his leg off. As McElroy observes, the outstretched arms of Watson and the black "mirror each other," and it may even be that Copley meant Watson's presence in the water to remind us, by reversal as it were, of the slavers' practice of dumping dead Africans into...