Word: pales
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...federal racketeering trial is expected to last 12 weeks, just like a visiting summer show. Kaplan, a pale, balding, pug-nosed 41-year-old with increasingly dark circles around his eyes, sits attentively in court as a cast of witnesses describe the shadier side of what he and his defense lawyers insist is a legitimate business. John Givens, an admitted mobster turned government witness, recently told of how he once sliced off a man's ear and slit another's nostrils to insert lit cigars...
...face filled him out. He?s a thin, wiry guy who runs marathons and enjoys "century" bike races. But after Everest, he?s twenty pounds lighter than normal. At least those little tufts sticking out of his cheeks gave some definition to his gaunt features. His beautiful pale blue eyes sat deep inside hollow eye sockets that were rimmed with black cuts created when his goggles froze to his face. The skin on his face resembled bronze leather and bore the effects of sub-zero temperatures, 100-mile-an-hour winds, biting snow and glaring sun. His clothes hung...
Mention robotic surgery and people typically envision a C3P0 in pale green scrubs, leaning over and digitally intoning: "This won't hurt a bit." It's not quite as cool as that. The robot Gardiner uses at San Ramon Regional Medical Center, in a grassy suburb an hour outside of San Francisco, is a gray-and-black three-armed wonder connected to a console that doesn't have anything witty to say. It looks exactly like what it is: a machine. But by allowing doctors to access and see parts of the body as never before - without large, open incisions...
...While the corruption charges were dismissed on Monday by Indonesia's attorney general (and they pale more than a little by comparison to the hundreds of millions the Suharto regime was accused of pilfering), Wahid's bigger problem is the competence charge. Originally installed by an alliance of Islamic parties and members of Suharto's GOLKAR party to deny Megawati the top job after she finished way ahead of all challengers in the first post-Suharto election, Wahid's erratic leadership alienated most of his allies as the country continued to languish in economic torpor and separatist rebellions threatened...
...middle of the night why I have had such a hard life," he says. Lately he has been thinking about the days just after the accident, when he sat with his wife in the intensive care unit of Taichung Veterans General Hospital. In the hot, stuffy ward with its pale yellow curtains and beige walls, he was overwhelmed by his guilt at what had happened to her. If he had never gone into politics and had stayed a corporate lawyer, he and his wife could have avoided this tragedy. "You must hate me," he said...