Word: paleness
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...these issues pale before the newly revealed miracle of fertilization, an event so dizzyingly complex that researchers say the more they know, the more they wonder that it works as often as it does. The actual merger of egg and sperm turns out to be one of the most straightforward steps in the process -- and the easiest to duplicate in a test tube. The events that occur before and after that union, scientists say, are where the real troubles...
...Millennium you wrote that the coming struggle for supremacy between the two emerging spheres -- Europe and Pacific -- will pale against the struggle between the world's rich regions and an exploited periphery. What will be the consequences...
...lady regard each other at arm's length. But the couple are soon overtaken by enchantment. "I little ghost," she tells him. "Old Japanese story: ghost visit man many many times, many very happy time together. But man's friends much worry. His face more weak, more pale. Ghost eating his heart." Reflects Iyer: "She could hardly have given more eloquent expression to all my unspoken fears...
Raisa Gorbachev has not been seen in public since Aug. 22, when, looking haggard and pale, she walked down the steps of the plane that carried her and her family back to Moscow after 72 hours of house arrest in the Crimea. But last week the world did get a chance to read what the 59-year-old wife of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had to say about her ordeal and, in a newly released memoir, about her earlier foreboding of what lay ahead...
Even Arab experts consider that many of the financial practices of B.C.C.I., including its attempts to cover up its losses, may have been beyond the pale. But they view such legerdemain as a crude attempt to comply with Western regulators' demands for acceptable profit and loss statements. U.S. and British authorities would naturally scoff at that explanation. They contend that B.C.C.I. flourished as a criminal enterprise largely because it was carefully constructed to take advantage of such tax havens as Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, which provide virtually no regulation...