Word: sheerness
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...FIRST THING THAT STRIKES contemporary researchers when they study siblings is the sheer quantity of time the kids spend in one another's presence and the power this has to teach them social skills. By the time children are 11, they devote about 33% of their free time to their siblings--more time than they spend with friends, parents, teachers or even by themselves--according to a well-regarded Penn State University study published in 1996. Later research, published last year, found that even adolescents, who have usually begun going their own way, devote at least 10 hours a week...
...longest day. And in the Bering Strait, the hazy rose-colored summer-dawn breaking over the blue-white ice-floes crowding its waters revealed a curious tableau: framed by the dark distant, snow-crowned headlands to the east and west and, at a lower elevation, the two, flat- and sheer-sided Diomede Islands tucked between those mainland heights, rose a forest of masts, sails, and rigging. Closer inspection revealed a listing, three-masted whaleship. Moored to it by a web of radiating ropes bobbed five smaller vessels, the 35-foot whaleboats that, on better days, the whaleship dispatched to harpoon...
...water was seeping from the rocks. That was a clue to a find that now produces about 100,000 carats of dull-brown rough every day and has about 1 trillion carats left to give. The Argyle Diamond Mine is the richest in the world in terms of the sheer number of stones, but they are small and dingy, mostly the color of breakfast tea. They seemed destined to end up as knife blades, dental tools and drilling bits...
...made no arrests or released further details about the murders, such as whether drugs were found in the vehicle, how many gunmen may have been involved or what type of weapons were used. New Orleans Police Department public information officer Garry Flot demurred when asked to comment on the sheer number of victims in Saturday's shooting...
...newest films she's much more fun to watch as the carnivorous Miranda than as Prairie's fading, wistful rustic Yolanda. Does the sheer longevity of her career make it hard for us to believe anymore that she can play anyone weak or pathetic? Or is it that she plays Yolanda's aging, slightly desperate flirt, complete with old-lady cleavage, so well it makes us uncomfortable...