Word: nosed
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...joked that his son regarded him as a “white boy sticking his nose where it didn’t belong” in reference to his interest in African-American visual culture...
...small town 26 km southeast of Grozny, on Feb. 21. Around that time, he was hiding in a village in the high, densely forested hills of the Nozhai Yurt district, another 40 km to the east. As so often in the past, he was living under his enemy's nose. The village was nominally under the control of pro-Russian Chechen forces; Tsentoroy, Kadyrov's home base, is only around 20 km away. Maskhadov was planning to move on toward Achkhoy Martan in western Chechnya. When his security detail failed to make contact, the guerrillas started calling down the chain...
...Frentz, her emotions fluctuating by the moment between anger and depression. "Some people are just happy to be alive," she says, after working out in the physical-therapy room at Brooke along with a soldier who is missing both legs and another with burns so bad his eyelids and nose are raw red stubs. "I'm just pissed...
Scientists used to believe that the human brain recognized faces as a whole. But a new study published last week in the Journal of Vision reports that our visual system seems to parse faces as it does words: by their component parts--eyes, nose, lips. The beauty of the brain is that it can assemble those parts into a familiar face in the blink of an eye. --By David Bjerklie
...Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb [Feb. 14]. This international smuggling operation took place under the nose of the CIA and other global intelligence agencies. Given that track record, there is no reason to feel confident that Khan is safely under house arrest in Islamabad. Larry Dennison Port Townsend, Washington...