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...course I know it," Justin replied, with an air of late adolescent condescension... How sharper than a serpent's tooth...
...more like seeing God through dirty Coke-bottle glasses: the satellite saw lumps but couldn't determine much about them. In April, though, scientists offered up much sharper images from a balloon-borne experiment called BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics), which lofted instruments into the Antarctic stratosphere; from another named MAXIMA (Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array, which did the same over the U.S.); and from a microwave telescope on the ground at the South Pole, called DASI (Degree Angular Scale Interferometer...
...truce were to hold, it would create a political crisis for the leadership on both sides, since that would force them back to the negotiating table in search of a long-term peace agreement - and the differences between them today are a lot sharper than they were when the Camp David peace talks collapsed last summer...
...After Obara's arrest in connection with Lucie's disappearance, a sharper image of his personal life emerged. In contrast to his occluded public persona, Obara's private obsessions are delineated in excruciating detail. He wrote journals and dictated audio diaries on cassette tapes starting in the early 1970s. Police have leaked some of Obara's most incriminating entries to Japanese reporters like Mamoru Kadowaki of the Weekly Shincho magazine. According to Kadowaki one of Obara's most troubling entries, presented in vaguely poetic form, includes the lines, "Women are only good for sex. I will lie to them...
...everyone vowing to keep up the fight. The budget process, of course, is never over till it's over (think October), and this was just the budget resolution - the broad outlines of fiscal allotment that the individual appropriations subcommittees will now have to fill in with sharper pencils. And they're non-binding, not even requiring Bush's signature - which means the real fights are just beginning...