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Hart was unstoppable in the early stages, leading the offense and defense with pinpoint kills and stifling blocks. Penn's play was shaky and inconsistent, leading to a number of errors in the opening game...
...while the Hubble is good at locating faint celestial objects, the follow-up science is often done by observatories on the ground. In essence, the Hubble is like the small finder telescopes backyard astronomers use to pinpoint interesting objects for their full-size telescopes...
Experts say they cannot pinpoint the first infection in this outbreak until the virus is contained. But if Esther Owete was the first case, then ground zero is her mud hut, now boarded up. There, minutes after her death, according to neighbors, Owete's distraught mother cried out for her grandson, Owete's one-year-old son Sam, to "suck your mother's last milk so you too can die. There is no one here to look after you now." He survived just four days. The Ebola was really moving by then, rushing through the family as members cared...
There are mystical and awesome moments in history: days when entire historical streams collide and coalesce into a single pinpoint of collapse. Nov. 9, 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall-the entire Soviet era and the Cold War, crumbling in a hail of concrete. Feb. 3, 1959: The Day the Music Died-the innocence and naivet of early rock 'n roll and the '50s burning up and crashing to earth. These are moments of myth when intangible and supernatural forces reduce to a microcosm, a specific time and place where zeitgeists materialize for an instant before shattering...
Israel's riposte was tactically precise and strategically effective. The pinpoint strikes by armed helicopters on Thursday targeted Palestinian facilities associated with inciting the violence. Carefully giving advance warning to minimize civilian casualties, Israel drew a firm line. Enough. It was sharp and, in Israeli public opinion, satisfying. And as a clear escalation--reminding the world that local events could quickly grow into a major regional conflict--the Israeli move drew in diplomatic leverage from all sides...