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...sunrise at 5:52 a.m., a total of 250 scientists, journalists and guests had gathered, waiting and waiting for the last eclipse visible from the U.S. in the 20th century. At 6:30 a.m. the celestial show began. Like a devouring sky god, the moon's shadow appeared, gouging out a perfectly rounded bite from the upper edge of the sun. Moving at 10,000 km/h (6,000 m.p.h.) -- but as slowly as a distant airplane to the human eye -- the shadow crept down the face of the sun. Soon it obscured all but a thin lower crescent that gleamed...
...light. "Mind blowing," said Edward Kuba, University of Hawaii regent. "Wonderful, wonderful," pronounced Sony chairman Akio Morita, one of several VIPs present, as he gazed through a new video camera from his company. Then, with stunning suddenness, the four minutes of totality ended, another diamond ring appeared, and the shadow of the moon could be seen fleeing across the Pacific toward Baja California...
Washington's shadow Senator is planning to host a weekly current-affairs show on Cable News Network, a move that indicates...
...there is little joy in Germany today. The mood is subdued, as if, at a time that should be reserved for quiet satisfaction, a shadow has fallen on the land. A few years down the road it will all work out, Germans assure one another, but most are aware that unification has proved -- and will continue to be -- a more difficult task than anyone expected amid last year's euphoria. There are times when it seems that Ossis and Wessis, as they sometimes contemptuously call each other, are growing further apart, not closer together...
...alcoholism and his rumored misuse of church funds. But as the priest pokes through the debris of a dead man's life, he finds that His Eminence performed many hidden acts of bravery and altruism. Is he worthy of canonization? Or does the past throw too long a shadow? Can it be that Greeley is knowledgeable and skilled enough to make the reader care? Saints preserve...